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[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 231


*THE RESPONSIBILITY OF RICH COUNTRIES FOR THE PERSISTENCE OF IMPOVERISHMENT*
AND ILL-BEING** IN POOR COUNTRIES: A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED INDICTMENT OF THE
MDGs.  *



Some have calculated that, with current development trends remaining the
norm, poverty will be eradicated in something like 70 or more years.



1. The easiest and shortest way for this Reader to make its point here is to
elevate a number of truisms about the MDGs to the category of
‘mini-iron-laws’. These would add to several truisms about the MDGs
presented in previous Readers (see www.humaninfo.org/aviva under No.69). The
new mini-iron-laws are the following:

THE FULL TEXT CAN BE FOUND IN:

http://www.socialmedicine.org/2009/12/16/human-rights/the-responsibility-of-rich-countries-for-the-persistence-of-impoverishment-and-ill-being-in-poor-countries-a
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