Extreme inequality and human rights 2015, para. 41

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Paragraph text: In 1992, the Special Rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities on the realization of economic, social and cultural rights, Danilo Türk, recommended that a special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights be appointed. He characterized income inequality as one of the main challenges of the time, and stated that income distribution within States remained distressingly inequitable. The Special Rapporteur lamented the fact that, in the 1980s, the urban working classes and large segments of the middle class had been impoverished, while groups and businessmen associated in one way or another with the internationalization of capital represented the major economic beneficiaries of the previous 10 years. He found that drastic measures to rectify that income injustice were required and that adequately carrying out poverty-reduction programmes and fulfilling economic, social and cultural rights throughout society was unthinkable without also redressing current income imbalances. He identified taxation as a central means of redressing existing imbalances of income distribution (see E/CN.4/Sub.2/1992/16, paras. 76-84).

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