Dear all,
Today we will discuss the article "Poverty and Human Rights" by Thomas Pogge. here are the gioding questions for you:
1. Which basic social rights listed by the author are directly connected to human rights?
2. Which social rights are connected to human rights but indirectly?
3. How would you shortly summarize the statistics the author provided? What do you think of the war statistics against the poverty statistics?
4. Why does the author state that poverty can be easily avoided today? What should be done for that?
5. What is the end state distribution percentage of wealth reported in the article? What is the wealthy countries response to the poverty issue?
6. Why is the system of monitoring the human rights is ineffective, as the author thinks?
7. How does the WTO and alike organizations increase the dilemma for poor states?
Best,
Aigul