Issues

Exclusion and Discrimination

Every day, in every region of the world, people living in poverty are discriminated against – whether through individual acts of others, or institutional discrimination by the state. Read about the obstacles and barriers they face, and how billions are trapped in a cycle of poverty and human rights violations.
Then act – demand dignity.

Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent targets that governments have pledged to reach by 2015 in their efforts to tackle poverty.  They have helped to put the fight against poverty firmly on the world’s agenda. However, the Goals do not fully reflect the promise in the Millennium Declaration where countries pledged to strive for the protection and promotion of all human rights.  Despite this promise, states’ human rights obligations are not adequately reflected in the MDGs, despite the importance of human rights – including economic, social and cultural rights – for improving the lives of people living in poverty.

Making Rights Law

Corporations, Human Rights and Poverty

Globalization has brought unprecedented power and influence for corporations. But, when corporations’ activities abuse human rights and drive people deeper into poverty there is often no effective means to hold companies to account or to ensure redress for those affected.

Maternal health and sexual and reproductive rights