In a first post: “Back to the present: forgotten crises”, I expressed my wish and the interest to come back to crises around the world about which we no longer hear or hear too little.
These crises are often driven out of our daily media life by new crises to be tackled without however having found a favorable outcome to the previous ones, which have disappeared in the continuous flow of information. In the absence of completeness, I have restricted this series of analyzes to a certain number of situations whose human rights protection issues are echoed right down to the corner of our street, here, in France. For this second post, we will discuss poverty in the United States, before crossing the Atlantic again to see its extent in France.
Poverty and human rights, an interdependent relationship
In recent decades, inequalities have increased dramatically across the world. In other words, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, including in developed countries. The Covid-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this trend, plunging nearly 150 million people into extreme poverty. However, this poverty has harmful effects on the effectiveness of human rights.
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