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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 263</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT A TOOL THAT ACCEPTS POVERTY; HUMAN RIGHTS ARE A WAY
TO FIGHT IT.</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span>(Julius Nyerere)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none">-If the rich could hire others to
die for them, we, the poor, would make a nice living. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">What is generously
distributed in the world is poverty.</span> <span style="font-size:14.0pt">But poverty is not
genetic. Poverty is the result of disempowerment and exclusion. Poverty
humiliates.</span> <span style="font-size:14.0pt">Poverty itself most often is a result of the violation
of human rights (HR). Actually, HR violations occur both as a cause and as a
consequence of poverty. Poverty, in its political dimension, shows the
inequality in the enjoyment of HR among members of our societies. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Regrettably, poverty is progressing faster than the
laborious international climate negotiations. We cannot eradicate poverty by
decree. Putting band-aids on the problem of poverty has become an industry for
the rich. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Chicken and miserly handouts have not reduced and will
not reduce poverty. The end of extreme poverty will only come when masses of
individual citizens around the world demand an end to the human rights violations that
come with extreme poverty and things reach a de-facto tipping point.</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none">
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