Thursday, September 09, 2010
Women, Human Rights & Poverty
What is the Human Right to liberty from Poverty?
A life of dignity is every person's human right. This is true no subject where he or she lives or what his or her sex, race, or ethnic origin may be. And every woman, man, youth and child has basic needs that must be met if he or she is to live in self-respect. A life of poverty means that basic needs go unfulfilled, and basic human rights are violated.
More than 1 billion people live in poverty around the world, and a great majority of them are women. Women's poverty results in extensive violations of their human rights. When a woman faces a lack of access to adequate housing, food, or health care, her human rights are violated. When she lives in an unsafe and unhealthy environment or lacks access to clean water, she is not enjoying her fundamental human rights to a life of self-esteem and to an adequate standard of living.
Poverty can also be caused by violations of human rights, particularly women's human right to non-discrimination. When women are deprived of equal access to employment opportunities, are paid less than men for equal work, or are prevented by law or custom from owning or inheriting land, they are made weak to poverty. When women are denied equal access to education, when they do not have the equal right to decide on the number and spacing of children, or when they have an imbalanced share of the responsibility for raising children, their ability to earn an income and to be protected from poverty is greatly compromised.
A life of dignity is every person's human right. This is true no subject where he or she lives or what his or her sex, race, or ethnic origin may be. And every woman, man, youth and child has basic needs that must be met if he or she is to live in self-respect. A life of poverty means that basic needs go unfulfilled, and basic human rights are violated.
More than 1 billion people live in poverty around the world, and a great majority of them are women. Women's poverty results in extensive violations of their human rights. When a woman faces a lack of access to adequate housing, food, or health care, her human rights are violated. When she lives in an unsafe and unhealthy environment or lacks access to clean water, she is not enjoying her fundamental human rights to a life of self-esteem and to an adequate standard of living.Poverty can also be caused by violations of human rights, particularly women's human right to non-discrimination. When women are deprived of equal access to employment opportunities, are paid less than men for equal work, or are prevented by law or custom from owning or inheriting land, they are made weak to poverty. When women are denied equal access to education, when they do not have the equal right to decide on the number and spacing of children, or when they have an imbalanced share of the responsibility for raising children, their ability to earn an income and to be protected from poverty is greatly compromised.
Labels: Human Rights and Poverty, liberty, Women, womens righs
