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Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty 2nd ed

Author: Martha F. Davis; Morten Kjaerum; Amanda Lyons
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035350506

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781035312115
Published In: July 2026
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This thoroughly revised second edition of the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty builds on the significant contribution of the first edition to the understanding of global poverty, addressing new developments in the nexus of human rights, poverty and inequality. Leading experts from various disciplines draw on influential scholarship and practical experience to outline a future research agenda for addressing poverty and inequality.

Authors interrogate the definition of poverty and examine the dynamics of poverty and inequality in relation to matters such as race, gender, age, geography and migration status. Chapters explore the rights to housing, health, work, education, protest and access to justice, highlighting the challenges posed by corruption, climate change and new technologies. This second edition provides new research, expands on previous material and raises probing questions about how the status quo of poverty and human rights is defined and perpetuated.

This Research Handbook is a crucial resource for scholars and students of law and development, comparative law and human rights looking for future research avenues. It is also beneficial for legal practitioners working to address poverty in both the Global North and Global South.

Opening Note xviii

Foreword xx

Acknowledgements xxv

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty xxvi

Martha F. Davis, Morten Kjaerum and Amanda Lyons

PART I DEFINITIONS, MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS

A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty 2

Olivier De Schutter

From stigma to rights: uncovering the hidden dimension of poverty 22

Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona

Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and social exclusion 39

Ayşe Buğra

Is economic inequality a violation of human rights? 57

Gillian MacNaughton

Poverty and political rights: an exercise of recovery from oblivion 74

Karolina Miriam Januszewski andManfred Nowak

Human rights and poverty reduction: what are the linkages? 94

Hans-Otto Sano

PART II CROSS-CURRENTS

SECTION A POVERTY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND IDENTITY

Breaking the link between poverty and disability: re-purposing human rights in the 21st century 113

Gerard Quinn and Mary Keogh

Poverty, older persons and human rights 131

Andrew Byrnes

Child impoverishment and the human rights of children 149

Wouter Vandenhole

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Capping motherhood 167

Meghan Campbell

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The price that is paid: violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and poverty 182

Victor Madrigal-Borloz

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Assessing racialized poverty: the case of impoverished Roma people in the European Union 204

Margareta Matache and Simona Barbu

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Rights, racism and poverty: failures of the global commitment to leave no one behind 225

Gay McDougall

SECTION B POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERSECTING WITH GEOGRAPHY AND PLACE

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Human rights and a-legality: destitution of persons seeking asylum in the

EU 244

Eleni Karageorgiou

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Seeing human rights like a city: the prospects and perils of the ‘urban turn’ 263

Natalia Ángel-Cabo and Luisa Sotomayor

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Local authorities, poverty and the impact of human rights norms 280

Moritz Baumgärtel

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Addressing poverty at its base: the housing and land rights approach 297

Miloon Kothari

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The land-rights poverty nexus 313

Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell Sr.

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Indigenous Peoples’ land rights: a culturally sensitive strategy for poverty eradication and sustainable development 330

Alejandro Fuentes

PART III MECHANISMS AND POLICIES

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A human rights critique of contemporary social policy paradigms: new behaviourism, social investment and new universalism 348

Volkan Yilmaz

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From home to commodity: the human right to housing in a market-driven era 365

Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan

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The right to health for people living in poverty: a human rights perspective 383

Mette Hartlev

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Poverty and abortion rights in international law 399

Joanna N. Erdman

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Poverty, labour law and human rights: a necessary connection 416

Lee Swepston and Constance Thomas

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Minimum wage, poverty reduction and human rights in Cambodia: a case study 433

Sophal Chea

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Fair taxes to end poverty 447

Åsa Gunnarsson

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Advancing human rights through legal empowerment of the disadvantaged 463

Lisa Hilbink and Valentina Salas

PART IV STRUCTURAL BARRIERS

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Climate change, human rights and poverty: intersections and challenges 481

Sumudu Atapattu

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Corruption as a human rights violation 501

Khulekani Moyo

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Conflict, poverty and human rights violations 517

Zafer Kizilkaya

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Human rights, technology and poverty 531

Hellen Mukiri-Smith and Linnet Taylor

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Beyond the state: holding international institutions and private entities accountable for poverty alleviation 552

Lucy Williams

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