World Chronicle 975: Arjun Sengupta, Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights

Tony Jenkins interviews Arjun Sengupta, Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty to the UN Commission for Human Rights, for World Chronicle program 975.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / World Chronicle
• Video Length: 00:28:16
• Production Date: 28 April 2005
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: RICARDO ALDAY; SUSIE SALMOND; TONY JENKINS
• Subject Topical: ETHICS; HUMAN RIGHTS; LAW; POVERTY; POVERTY ELIMINATION; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• MAMS Id: 2186369
• Parent Id: 825007

Description

Is Poverty a Violation of Human Rights?

Poverty has been a part of human society since the beginning of time. But does it need to be a part of humanity's future? Today, some experts say, the international community finally has the technical, economic and social resources to abolish extreme poverty worldwide.

Does the capacity to eliminate poverty imply a moral obligation to do so? Should the eradication of poverty be an issue of law rather than of ethics? In what ways can freedom from extreme poverty be understood as a fundamental human right? Can poverty really be abolished in the 21st century, the way slavery was in the 19th?

These are some of the questions discussed in this edition of World Chronicle with Professor Arjun Sengupta, Independent Expert on Extreme Poverty to the UN Commission for Human Rights.

• Scripts: File; 975.pdf (43.78 KB)