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! Read * The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights by Irene Khan Ù eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights 963 million people go to sleep with empty stomachs M. Himed The statistics on poverty are staggering. People know that others are starving somewhere on this planet but have power to do nothing except shake their heads. People starve on one side of the world while the majority of people on the other side are full wi. A Call for Justice This book by Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, is both disturbing and inspiring as she offers a thorough examination of the scandal of global
| Title | : | The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (657 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393337006 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
963 million people go to sleep with empty stomachs M. Himed The statistics on poverty are staggering. People know that others are starving somewhere on this planet but have power to do nothing except shake their heads. People starve on one side of the world while the majority of people on the other side are full wi. A Call for Justice This book by Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, is both disturbing and inspiring as she offers a thorough examination of the scandal of global poverty seen through the lens of human rights. She draws on her vast experience as a human r. Useful study of world poverty Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, has written a fine book on what she rightly calls `poverty, the world's worst human rights crisis'.She points out that the inequities in the world today are greater than those in apartheid South Afric
. She lives with her husband and daughter in London. Irene Khan, as the first woman and first Asian secretary general of Amnesty International, has brought a strong focus to socioeconomic rights and violence against women around the world
Describing poverty as the world's worst human rights crisis, the author refutes the view that economic growth alone can address the problem, arguing that corruption, disenfranchisement and other ills perpetuate poverty even as a country's GDP rises. Shifting her focus to the United Nations, she reveals how the organization's antiquated human rights and antipoverty approaches—still heavily influenced by cold war ideological battles—impede the causes they are intended to assist. Photos. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . All rights reserved. Not only do these unnecessary sections obscure Khan's very valuable messages, but they read more like a textbook than the work of a leading expert in her field. Unfortunately, readers must wade through the book's tedious first half to reach these insights; Khan squanders space and her audience's patience reporting truisms like poor people often have inadequate shelter, that
In a bracing argument enriched by compelling photographs from across the world, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan makes the case that poverty remains a global epidemic because we continue to define it as an economic problem whose only solution is foreign aid and investment. A powerful argument by the secretary general of Amnesty International that poverty is not just an economic problem but a global human-rights violation. In our rapidly globalizing age with economic growth occurring in almost every corner of the world, it is easy to forget that more than one billion people still live on less than one dollar a day. Empowering the poor with basic rights of security is our only chance for eradicating poverty and giving freedom and dignity to those who have never experienced it.35 photos. Poverty is the worst human-rights crisis in the world today, denying billions of people their most basic rights. Khan calls for a reevaluation of this longstanding assumption and turns us toward confronting poverty as a human-rights violation
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