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The UN responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti 2016, para. 81 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Third, there is now a much stronger commitment to taking the rule of law seriously in the context of the approach adopted within the United Nations itself, and this needs to be reflected in the legal response to cholera in Haiti. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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The World Bank and human rights 2015, para. 31 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The systematic avoidance of human rights language, frameworks and institutions in the context of Bank projects on gender-based violence is replicated in most other areas of its activities, although there have been some exceptions over past decades in areas such as HIV/AIDS and some gender-related projects. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2015 | ||
Social protection and old age poverty 2010, para. 31 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Even in developed countries, contributory systems are often inadequate to protect the elderly: often benefits are too low to cover costs of living. Moreover, legislation related to compulsory retirement age can make it impossible for some older persons to find additional sources of income. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2010 | ||
Social protection and old age poverty 2010, para. 25 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 26 million of the 40 million persons living with HIV/AIDS worldwide and is subsequently the region with the highest number of households with a generation gap. In Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe, 60 per cent of AIDS orphans live with their grandparents. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2010 | ||
Social protection and old age poverty 2010, para. 24 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The HIV/AIDS epidemic impacts on older persons in two ways. First, mostly middle-aged people die from the disease and older persons are more likely to be left without the care and support of their children. Second, they also may become the primary caregivers to their orphaned grandchildren. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2010 | ||
Taxation and human rightss 2014, para. 44 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Low levels of revenue collection have a disproportionate impact on the poorest segments of the population and constitute a major obstacle to the capacity of the State to finance public services and social programmes. A lack of access to quality services is a constituent element of poverty, and people living in poverty are particularly dependent on public services, being unable to pay for private alternatives. In addition, their specific needs and characteristics make it more likely they will have to interact with State-funded institutions and services on a regular basis. This is particularly the case for people who experience multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantage; for example, persons with disabilities are more likely to come into regular contact with health and social services, while women are more likely to be directly dependent on social protection and health systems for at least some period of their lives because of their sexual and reproductive health and maternity-related needs. Women also serve as unpaid alternative care providers when public services are not adequately funded, increasing their time burden and limiting their opportunities to engage in paid work, education, training or leisure, while also negatively affecting their enjoyment of rights such as health, education, participation and social security. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2014 | ||
Taxation and human rightss 2014, para. 42 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The most straightforward way in which government revenues can facilitate compliance with human rights obligations is by providing resources for public goods, such as education and health services - goods that are critical to realizing human rights and that ultimately benefit the whole of society. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2014 | ||
Extreme poverty and human rights on universal basic income 2017, para. 49 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Between 1974 and 1979, a negative income tax experiment ran in the Canadian city of Dauphin. Subsequent analysis of the data confirmed various positive effects, including a drop in hospitalization rates, especially for mental health and accident admissions, as well as an increase in year 12 school registrations. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2017 | ||
Extreme poverty and human rights on universal basic income 2017, para. 12 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Basic income is intended as a cash grant; not as in-kind support such as food, vouchers or shelter. This means that individuals must have a means by which to receive the income, such as a bank account, or a cell phone capable of managing electronic payments. This might be problematic where neither banking infrastructure nor cell phone coverage are strong, and will also be difficult for groups such as the homeless, people fleeing domestic violence, and persons with psychosocial disabilities. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Marginality of economic and social rights 2016, para. 56 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | One of the most encouraging developments in recent years in relation to economic and social rights has been the growth of specialist NGOs at the international, national and, especially, local levels working to promote either economic and social rights in general or specific rights such as those relating to health, housing, education, water, gender equality, disability and ageing. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Marginality of economic and social rights 2016, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In considering which institutions are most likely to be best placed to promote knowledge and understanding of economic and social rights at the domestic level, two types of actors seem most relevant. The first being the government agencies that are responsible for making and implementing policy in the relevant sectors. Thus, government ministries dealing with education, social protection, health, nutrition and so on might be expected to take the lead in promoting a rights-based understanding. This is not to argue, as is sometimes suggested in the literature on rights-based approaches to development, that everything these ministries do should be guided by and seen through the lens of human rights. Nonetheless, one might expect the ministry of education, for example, to acknowledge that there is a right to education and to spell out what that means in specific policy terms. While it is well beyond the scope of this report to explore how common such an approach is among sectoral ministries in most countries, it can be said by way of generalization that the phenomenon is not common. There are some indications that the health sector might be moving more in that direction under the impetus of the movement for universal health coverage. Similarly, social security is increasingly seen in terms of the right to social security as a result of the Social Protection Floor Initiative. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Marginality of economic and social rights 2016, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In addition to highlighting the intrinsic linkages among all rights, the principal significance of this bold assertion was to signal that economic, social and cultural rights are as important as civil and political rights and must be accorded equal attention. And the past quarter of a century has indeed seen a great number of important initiatives, especially in sectoral areas such as the right to housing, the right to food, the right to health and the right to water, and more consistent tribute being rendered to the principle of indivisibility. But acceptance in law and in practice of the idea that economic and social rights are actually human rights, with the set of clear legal consequences that this entails, rather than a set of concerns synonymous with development or social progress, remains marginal. This marginality manifests itself in the work of United Nations human rights bodies, in both the theory and practice of the great majority of States, in the work of many of the most prominent civil society groups focusing on human rights, in the interests and priorities of scholars and commentators and, perhaps most counter-intuitively, even in the work of most international agencies promoting poverty alleviation and social development. As a result, the principal of indivisibility continues to be honoured more in the breach than in the observance. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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The UN responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti 2016, para. 64 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Fourth, different arrangements might be contemplated for cases of death than for those involving injury. Given the ongoing nature of the problem and the complexity of compensating all of those who became ill, a programmatic approach might be an important element in relation to the second category of victim. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2016 | ||
The UN responsibility for the cholera outbreak in Haiti 2016, para. 21 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Immediately after the publication of the panel's report in May 2011, a United Nations spokesperson was dismissive of the report on the grounds that it did "not present any conclusive scientific evidence linking the outbreak to the MINUSTAH peacekeepers or the Mirebalais camp". Senior officials have continued to rely on this defence. However, the more detailed and official response provided in a letter dated 25 November 2014 from Assistant Secretary-General Pedro Medrano Rojas, Senior Coordinator for the Cholera Response in Haiti, addressed to the special procedures mandate holders took a different tack. Although the letter is long and detailed, it curiously makes no mention of the panel's principal finding, which was, as noted above, that that "the source of the Haiti cholera outbreak was due to contamination of the Meye Tributary of the Artibonite River with a pathogenic strain of current South Asian type Vibrio cholerae as a result of human activity". In other words, MINUSTAH was indeed the source. Instead, after citing the panel's reference to poor water and sanitation conditions and inadequate medical facilities, Mr. Medrano suggested that the main outcome of the inquiry was the statement that the outbreak "was not the fault of, or due to deliberate action by, a group or individual". Similarly, regularly updated fact sheets describing the United Nations response continue to make no mention of the panel's principal conclusion in relation to MINUSTAH. It has been airbrushed out of the picture. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Extreme inequality and human rights 2015, para. 46 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Mr. Bengoa also recommended the creation of a social forum to facilitate the participation of States, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and corporations in discussing how to take economic, social and cultural rights into account in their policies. The Social Forum was set up in 2002 and recent sessions have focused on the rights of older persons (2014) and on the rights of access to medicines in the context of the right to health (2015). | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Extreme inequality and human rights 2015, para. 11 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has developed several indicators that measure social and horizontal inequalities. An inequality-adjusted human development index, calculated for 145 countries, indicates how achievements in the areas of health, education and income are distributed among a population. UNDP also publishes the coefficient of human inequality, which is a calculation of average inequality across the three dimensions mentioned above. UNDP further measures gender inequality in its gender inequality index. Looking at these different indices, which are not always as intuitive as the income indices described above, it becomes clear that many countries do not even come close to the levels of equality in terms of health, education and gender that exist in the more egalitarian countries. Where Norway had an inequality-adjusted human development index value of 0.891 in 2013, indicating a high level of equality in comparison with other countries, the figures in countries such as the United States (0.755), the Russian Federation (0.685), Chile (0.661), India (0.418) and the Central African Republic (0.203) are much lower. The gender-related development index (female to male ratio of the human development index) ranges from very high levels of equality between men and women in Norway (0.997) to a very high level of gender inequality in Afghanistan (0.602). | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 102 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States have a duty to regulate private service providers, to ensure that they are not violating the human rights of the population they serve, including the rights to equality and non-discrimination and the principles of availability, accessibility, acceptability, adaptability and quality. To this end, a human rights impact assessment should be conducted before care services are outsourced to private providers, and at regular evaluation intervals. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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| 2013 | ||
Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 101 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic should also take specific measures to ensure that unpaid home-based caregivers are adequately supported, including by providing counselling, training, livelihood support and skills development, savings and credit schemes, medical supplies and equipment. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 100 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | An important part of the State's investment in care services is the recruitment of adequate numbers of paid care professionals such as nurses, and providing them with decent pay and working conditions. Overall, States should shift from a strategy of reliance on market and voluntary provision of care that is informal and exploitative to one that allows professional, decently paid and compassionate forms of care. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 99 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Low-income countries can overcome resource constraints by building on existing social care programmes to provide better working conditions and improve the quality of care, for example through the expansion of child nutrition centres into quality preschool or educational centres with wider coverage. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 60 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Lack of women's perspective in policymaking on agriculture, water and food management, despite their being key actors in these areas, results in misinformed decision-making and jeopardizes women's rights further. Similarly, policy discussions at all levels suffer from an inherent bias because women and men with intensive caring responsibilities are not present, contributing to the invisibility and inattention to care work in public policy. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 56 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States must ensure that unpaid caregivers, in particular in deprived and remote areas, enjoy the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications without discrimination. A core element of this right is that innovations essential for a life with dignity should be accessible to everyone, in particular marginalized populations (A/HRC/20/26, para. 29). | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 55 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Because unpaid care work is unrecognized and undervalued, Governments rarely make investments in the development and distribution of affordable technology that could significantly reduce the intensity and duration of women's work within the home. Lack of access to such technologies undermines women's well-being and reduces the time they can allocate to the more interactive part of care that would better improve the well-being of care recipients. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 53 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States must ensure that women and men must have an equal right to family benefits and these should be provided taking into account the resources and circumstances of the household. All women, including those in informal or atypical work, should be granted paid maternity leave and benefits for an adequate period and States must take steps to the maximum of their available resources to ensure that social security systems cover persons working in the informal economy. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 47 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Ensuring the enjoyment of rights of other members of the population - such as older persons, children and persons with disabilities - will also prove beneficial to their caregivers, by alleviating and redistributing intensive care needs. In this regard, inter alia, States are required to provide physical as well as psychological rehabilitative measures aimed at maintaining the functionality and autonomy of older persons; and attention and care for chronically and terminally ill persons. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 45 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The right to health requires States parties to provide quality and accessible health care and take measures to ensure the underlying determinants of health. This includes access to safe and potable water and adequate sanitation, an adequate supply of safe food, nutrition and housing, and also healthy occupational and environmental conditions, which clearly many unpaid caregivers living in poverty do not enjoy. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 43 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The right to health may also be affected by unpaid care work. There are limits to how much care a person can give without negative impacts on their own health. Thus, when public policies implicitly assume the free and limitless availability of unpaid care, and fail to take it into account by supporting, funding or provisioning care, this can have a major impact on the health of women caregivers and the quality of care that they are able to provide. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Access to justice for people living in poverty 2012, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Such factors often act as a persuasive deterrent against seeking redress from judicial or adjudicatory mechanisms, or may indeed represent an insurmountable obstacle for the poorest and most marginalized. This is especially so for those who have limited mobility, such as older persons or persons with disabilities, or those for whom travel is more difficult or dangerous, including women and children. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Penalization of people living in poverty 2011, para. 80 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | While preventing fraud is a legitimate aim, measures such as invasive surveillance policies, onerous conditionalities, excessive disclosure requirements and extensive policing in social benefit systems are disproportionate to their aim, stem from overt and covert discriminatory attitudes and practices, and only serve to reinforce the poverty experienced by beneficiaries. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Penalization of people living in poverty 2011, para. 70 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Detention and incarceration can also have serious health implications for the poorest and most vulnerable, who are likely to be subject to the worst treatment and conditions, including overcrowded cells, inadequate hygiene facilities, rampant disease transmission and inadequate health care. In some cases, overcrowding in prisons can have such a severe effect on detainees that the conditions may even amount to a form of cruel and inhuman treatment. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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