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Direct Link to Document:
Oxfam - 2008
CLIMATE WRONGS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Putting People at the Heart of
Climate-Change Policy
Example of Gender-Related
Text Components:
Economic analysis typically fails to
take account of human rights because of the underlying assumptions and methods
that economics uses.
But this top-down analysis assumes
that those affected should cover the costs and furthermore ignores the
significant cost of safeguarding the rights to food and subsistence of the most
vulnerable farmers: the developing world's 400 million smallholders and
labourers, ESPECIALLY WOMEN who farm on common land, and often without
irrigation or access to credit. Where poor people's rights are at stake, this
analytical approach goes strongly against the human-rights principle of
providing a remedy by meeting the cost of the impacts that are being imposed
upon poor people.
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