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[Published: Friday October 16 2009]

World leaders must change debate on poverty, Khan

 

New York, 16 Oct-(ANA)-Amnesty International has called on world leaders and policy makers to change the debate on poverty from economics to addressing the human rights problems that impoverish and keep people poor.

 

Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan stated: “Poverty is the world’s worst human rights crisis.”

 

Launching her book The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights in New York, Irene Khan says eradication of poverty requires respect of economic, social and cultural rights – such as health care, education and housing – along side civil and political rights. 

 

 

With ten chapters addressing topics such as why freedom matters, discrimination, the poverty trap, maternal mortality, slums, corporate accountability and legal empowerment, The Unheard Truth calls for justice and empowerment for the world's poor and puts a human face to a problem that is all too often illustrated by abstract statistics.  

 

 "The fight to end poverty is this generation's greatest struggle. We will win it if we put freedom, justice and equality at its core," said Irene Khan. (ANA)

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