"Poverty is the worst situation of the world's most human rights crisis, Irene Kahn said to be an avid and authoritative book to claim a human rights approach for about 3 billion people in poverty less than $ 2.50 per day The statistic is about half of the world's population, and around 20,000 children all over the world die each day due to poverty.
Most people are aware of poverty, but reading this book is in deepening awareness of the economic and social inequity that affects the lives of billions of people living in poverty. The authors have created a powerful case that eliminating poverty by only income level led to the conclusion that rising income levels would solve poverty problems. She raises an example of state income, but inequality and poverty still continue. Economic growth in many countries has not ended alienation, discrimination, exclusion of the poor, ethnic, religious organizations, women and various people.
The author explains the layout of the poor over economic problems. Living in poverty is to experience 'poverty, lack, exclusion, lethargy'. The author's position is that all these problems are linked together to form a "vicious circle". Maintaining people as poverty is a factor that works in concert.
Through her book Irene Khan cites many examples of silent, anxiety, exclusion, discrimination, deprivation. Some of the many examples she lists are as follows.
• Due to the global economic crisis, millions of Chinese workers were sent back to a village without a safety net.
• A high example that millions of people in Zimbabwe suffered from poverty.
• Hundreds of thousands of US homeless who are excluded and discriminated because they can not participate in the vote.
• More than 2,000 Colombian labor unions killed in the past 20 years.
• In statistics from 2008, more than 37 countries have prisoners of conscience.
• Statistics of more than 81 countries with "strict restrictions on freedom of expression".
• India's Dalit Community, accounting for 16% (160 million people) of economically excluded and discriminated population.
• 1500 families in Cambodia were forcibly repatriated to the trucks in 2006 and deposited in the floodplain. The house was destroyed afterwards.
• A 2002 US report that documented that American homeless people moved, fined, confiscated due to sleeping in a car, park, or street. San Francisco alone cited 43,000 people in a year in violation of "quality of life".
Living in poverty is to be trapped in obstacles of political and philosophical beliefs. Living in poverty must be confined in the belief of 'economic growth' that economic growth alone solves and solves poverty problems. Living in poverty is to be trapped in "sequencing trap". Poverty can be solved "like a pacemaker". This is the prioritization of measures. Sequencing traps are to resist a comprehensive approach to solving the complex problems of billions of people in the poor.
The author defines what it considers to be a concrete and comprehensive approach that must be taken to solve several problems facing billions of human poverty.
This book is an analysis of global poverty written from the viewpoint of considerate human rights created from personal experiences of more than 20 years. It is a must-read book for those who are concerned about the social and economic inequities prevailing in today's world.
Written by WW Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, 10110, Irene Kahn, Amnesty International Secretary General in 2009, from 2001 to 2009. She graduated from Harvard Law School and has been working in the UN for 20 years. She is awarded a promising award for leadership in human rights.
