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[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 259



*A TALE ABOUT INHUMAN WRONGS AND HUMAN RIGHTS.*



Is it facetious to say that ever more people are ever more worse-off?



Human Rights provide an authoritative legal and moral framework to tackle
the deep-rooted causes of the ‘inhuman wrongs’ of poverty and
discrimination, i.e., the ongoing global processes of impoverishment. The HR
framework deals not only with *legal justice* (which is the primary
preoccupation of older, traditional human rights organizations), but also
with *economic and social justice* which is as central to development work.
To deal with both of these, many development actors --development
organisations, donors and governments-- are now actively integrating HR into
development planning. Many of the latter are integrating HR into poverty
reduction (disparity reduction) strategies as many more community-based
organisations are advocating for themselves for their economic, social and
cultural rights.


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Claudio
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