Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty

Edited by Martha F. Davis, Morten Kjaerum and Amanda Lyons

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This thoroughly revised second edition of the Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty builds on the significant contribution of the first edition to the understanding of global poverty, addressing new developments in the nexus of human rights, poverty and inequality. Leading experts from various disciplines draw on influential scholarship and practical experience to outline a future research agenda for addressing poverty and inequality.

Keywords: Human Rights; Poverty; Inequality; Sustainable Development Goals; Economic Disparities; Global South/Global North (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035350506
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 A human rights-based approach to measuring poverty

Olivier De Schutter

Ch 2 From stigma to rights: uncovering the hidden dimension of poverty

Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona

Ch 3 Current perspectives on global poverty: rights, capabilities and social exclusion

Ayşe Buğra

Ch 4 Is economic inequality a violation of human rights?

Gillian MacNaughton

Ch 5 Poverty and political rights: an exercise of recovery from oblivion

Karolina Miriam Januszewski and Manfred Nowak

Ch 6 Human rights and poverty reduction: what are the linkages?

Hans-Otto Sano

Ch 7 Breaking the link between poverty and disability: re-purposing human rights in the 21st century

Gerard Quinn and Mary Keogh

Ch 8 Poverty, older persons and human rights

Andrew Byrnes

Ch 9 Child impoverishment and the human rights of children

Wouter Vandenhole

Ch 10 Capping motherhood

Meghan Campbell

Ch 11 The price that is paid: violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and poverty

Víctor Madrigal-Borloz

Ch 12 Assessing racialized poverty: the case of impoverished Roma people in the European Union

Margareta Matache and Simona Barbu

Ch 13 Rights, racism and poverty: failures of the global commitment to leave no one behind

Gay McDougall

Ch 14 Human rights and a-legality: destitution of persons seeking asylum in the EU

Eleni Karageorgiou

Ch 15 Seeing human rights like a city: the prospects and perils of the ‘urban turn’

Natalia Ángel-Cabo and Luisa Sotomayor

Ch 16 Local authorities, poverty and the impact of human rights norms

Moritz Baumgärtel

Ch 17 Addressing poverty at its base: the housing and land rights approach

Miloon Kothari

Ch 18 The land-rights poverty nexus

Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell

Ch 19 Indigenous Peoples’ land rights: a culturally sensitive strategy for poverty eradication and sustainable development

Alejandro Fuentes

Ch 20 A human rights critique of contemporary social policy paradigms: new behaviourism, social investment and new universalism

Volkan Yilmaz

Ch 21 From home to commodity: the human right to housing in a market-driven era

Leilani Farha and Kaitlin J. Schwan

Ch 22 The right to health for people living in poverty: a human rights perspective

Mette Hartlev

Ch 23 Poverty and abortion rights in international law

Joanna N. Erdman

Ch 24 Poverty, labour law and human rights: a necessary connection

Lee Swepston and Constance Thomas

Ch 25 Minimum wage, poverty reduction and human rights in Cambodia: a case study

Sophal Chea

Ch 26 Fair taxes to end poverty

Åsa Gunnarsson

Ch 27 Advancing human rights through legal empowerment of the disadvantaged

Lisa Hilbink and Valentina Salas

Ch 28 Climate change, human rights and poverty: intersections and challenges

Sumudu Atapattu

Ch 29 Corruption as a human rights violation

Khulekani Moyo

Ch 30 Conflict, poverty and human rights violations

Zafer Kizilkaya

Ch 31 Human rights, technology and poverty

Hellen Mukiri-Smith and Linnet Taylor

Ch 32 Beyond the state: holding international institutions and private entities accountable for poverty alleviation

Lucy Williams

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