Access to justice for people living in poverty 2012, para. 28
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Laws tend to reflect and reinforce the privileges and interests of the powerful. Thus, many laws are inherently biased against persons living in poverty, do not recognize or prioritize the abuses they regularly suffer, or have a disproportionately harsh impact on them. A legal system based on prejudices against the poor does not protect them, but rather undermines their rights and autonomy, or seeks to control, criminalize and segregate them. Legislators often do not recognize and estimate the issues that negatively affect persons living in poverty as serious and in need of active remedy.
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights