Can Global Poverty be Regarded as a Violation Rights?
The poverty line is set internationally by information globally obtained by The World Bank. As per the 2015 revision, the World Bank from its statistic drew the poverty line to individuals living on less than 1.9 international dollars. Almost half of the entire population of the world, amounting to 3Billion and more, spend less than $2.50 per day, while those in extreme poverty, meaning they are below the poverty line, exceed 1.3 Billion people. Approximately 22000 children globally are robbed of their life daily by poverty and 1Billion others still live in poverty today. Global poverty can either be a violation of rights or not, and thus bringing about the need to assess how it can affect individual or collective rights. Personal entitlements that cannot be infringed by the government are the ones referred to as individual Rights. On the other hand, those rights applied to a group of individuals, who in one way or another are seen in their own right as an entity or rather different individuals forming an assembly all together, are referred to as collective rights. Whether or not these rights are affected by poverty is to be determined.
Despite the fact that several resolutions, UN declarations, and reports have recommended that poverty be termed as a violation of human rights, this view has generally not been accepted globally. From a precise school of thought, a large number of analysts in the political field progressively deny the fact that poor people have a right they would claim. They argue that there is no clear identification of individuals or groups with an obligation towards the poor and that it is almost impossible to touch properties owned by the rich and avoiding violation of their .
There is a challenge by development goals to deal with poverty globally since some institutions continuously impose policies termed to be neoliberal and are suspected to degenerate the poverty situation. The Millennium Developmental goals, which had been adopted solemnly since 2000 on various United Nations summits an occasion for its beneficiaries’ was not able to alleviate poverty by 2015 and handed the burden to the Sustainable Developmental Goals which has poverty eradication as its first and major .
According to Thomas Poggie a philosopher, constantly argue that poverty diminishes the capacity of people at individual level to exercise basic rights such as, right to a dignified life, right to express oneself freely and voting while one is illiterate (2014). Better yet if one could be able to enjoy the rights when their life expectancy has been reduced to 5years of age.
In the description of rights, poverty is found not to fit making it impossible to establish who or what exactly robs the right of the poor to access adequate income. In the same line of thought, theories linking global poverty to violation rights are very few. Rights are vivid dichotomy in that, its either they are violated by someone or not. But when it comes to poverty, the line drawn between those suggested to be or not is arbitrary since different countries have it differently, thus, a challenge even to unify it in the global scale. Many countries are in argument in what right of division is used to draw the line that constitutes poverty. Therefore, since a human right violator is to be stopped by use of a course of action taken on the violator to enhance restoration of the right violated and there is no point in time where concrete action will be administered to stop poverty as a violator its therefore not conclusive to term global poverty a violation rights.
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