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Human Rights and Poverty Reduction: Realities, Controversies and Strategies (2006)

An ODI Meeting Series

Edited by Tammie O'Neil
This new publication provides a synthesis of the main debates that emerged during the course of the 2005 ODI meeting series Human Rights and Poverty Reduction and reflects on whether the series acheived its three main objectives:

(i) To stimulate debate regarding the realities of the relationship between human rights and poverty reduction.
(ii) To provide space to discuss some of the controversies.
(iii) To generate constructive ideas about possible strategies for implementation of rights-based approaches to development.

The publication is available for purchase at the ODI online bookshop
or can be downloaded here, chapter by chapter:


65KB
Prelims
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations

79KB
Introduction

343KB
Meeting 1: Human rights and the Millenium Development Goals: contradictory frameworks?

220KB
Meeting 2: Economic and social rights: legally enforceable rights?

282KB
Meeting 3: Reconciling rights, growth and inequality

231KB
Meeting 4: Can rights make aid agencies more accountable?

213KB
Meeting 5: Why the human rights approach to HIV/AIDS makes all the difference

226KB
Meeting 6: Rights and natural resources:contradictions in claiming rights

218KB
Meeting 7: Protecting rights in conflict situations and fragile states

249KB
Meeting 8: Advocates or aid workers? Approaches to human rights in humanitarian crises

286KB
Meeting 9: Rights to water: strengthening the claims of poor people to improved access

99KB
Appendices & Biographies
Appendix 1: International Human Rights Instruments
Appendix 2: Millennium Development Goals and Targets
Appendix 3: Rights in Action Publications
Biographies
   

2MB
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