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style='margin-left:120.0pt;text-indent:-120.0pt;tab-stops: 120.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>WUNRN <o:p></o:p> </span></p> <div></div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.wunrn.com">http://www.wunrn.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/Media.aspx">http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/Media.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GENEVA -- <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Anand Grover, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, began a mission to Australia on 23 November 2009.</span></strong> The Special Rapporteur is in the country at the invitation of the Government until 4 December.The purpose of the mission is to determine, in the spirit of co-operation and dialogue, how Australia endeavours to implement the right to health, the measures taken for its successful realization and the obstacles encountered both at the national and international levels.The key themes of the mission will be the impact of poverty and discrimination, including inequalities, on the enjoyment of the right to health. <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The mission will focus on issues regarding the enjoyment of the right to health in Australia, and in particular in the context of access to healthcare of asylum seekers, refugees and persons in detention, as well as those of indigenous populations. _____________________________________________________________________</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://www.theage.com.au:80/opinion/society-and-culture/money-wont-fix-poverty-20091122-isqy.html">http://www.theage.com.au:80/opinion/society-and-culture/money-wont-fix-poverty-20091122-isqy.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&quot;The poor live with discrimination. Women, ethnic minorities and indigenous populations are disproportionately represented among the poor. It is no mere coincidence that 70 per cent of the world's poor are women and that that proportion is growing......In Australia, indigenous women are 35 times more likely to be hospitalised due to domestic violence, and 10 times more likely to die as a result of assault.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <p><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>Irene Khan is secretary-general of Amnesty International. Posted below is an edited extract from her address to the National Press Club in Canberra (AUSTRALIA)&nbsp; Wednesday 18 November. </span></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>She led a High Level Mission to Australia between 15 and 20 November, 2009. During the Mission, Irene Khan&nbsp; visited remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and meet with elders and community leaders. Amnesty International has been monitoring the impact of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) on the human rights and lives of Indigenous people affected. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>AUSTRALIA - MONEY WON'T FIX POVERTY - INDIGENOUS WOMEN +</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Irene Khan - Amnesty International<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><cite><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'>The Age, November 23, 2009</span></cite><i><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'><br> <cite><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>source: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/money-wont-fix-poverty-20091122-isqy.html" target="_blank">http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/money-wont-fix-poverty-20091122-isqy.html</a></span></cite></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>When I met Elsie she was squatting in the raw dirt of an open field, surrounded by all her belongings, which bore the dents and scratches I have seen inflicted on scant possessions when people have to flee, for example from flood, war or forced evictions. I walked down the desert track, past the filthy and worn mattresses set out in the open air that were used as beds by Elsie's mates, past the wooden crate perched on a rough-hewn bench that is their kitchen, and stepped over the tangled extension cord that brought electricity to their single lamp.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I squatted beside her in the slight shade cast by the blue plastic slung over the sticks that marked her living space. Through an interpreter, she said: ''Lady, I pay rent to the government for sleeping on a mattress in the desert. I have no home, I don't have a voice, no one is listening to me or my family.''<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Did I meet Elsie in Sudan, Sri Lanka or Afghanistan? No. The political leaders responsible for Elsie's situation are not to be found in Khartoum, Colombo or Kabul. They are in Canberra and Darwin. I met Elsie in Utopia in the Northern Territory.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In the heart of the First World I saw scenes more reminiscent of the Third World, of countries torn by war, dominated by repressive regimes, racked by corruption. How is it possible that in 21st-century Australia - in the land of the fair go - its first people should be among those living in abject destitution, in such appalling poverty?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Australia is one of the world's rich countries, with most scales ranking it among the top 30 countries by GDP per capita. By other measures, such as health, longevity, community life, political stability and political freedom, Australia leaps well up the world's league table and into the top 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>I did not expect to see abject poverty to this degree in the lucky country.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Utopia is a microcosm of what is happening on a larger scale around the world. In a period of unprecedented economic growth globally, the real numbers of people living in poverty have increased, as has the gap between the richest and poorest groups of people in every country in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Why is it so hard to end poverty? Because despite extensive research findings, government officials, policymakers and international financial institutions too often tend to define poverty in terms of income. But economic analysis does not capture the full picture of poverty and economic solutions cannot fully address the problem. Unless and until we address the human rights abuses that impoverish people and keep them poor, we will fail to eradicate poverty. That is as true in Australia as it is in Somalia.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>People are poor not just because of how little they earn but because they are discriminated against and deprived, because they live in insecurity and are marginalised and excluded, and because their voices are not heard. It is important to consider each of those elements, but it is also important to recognise that these elements reinforce each other in a downward spiral that traps people in poverty. The answer to tackling it lies not in enrichment but the empowerment of the poor.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>At birth, indigenous Australians are twice as likely to be low weight, and as they age they get sicker and die younger. The life expectancy of indigenous people in Australia is 17 years lower than that of the rest of the population. The rate of infant mortality is twice as high. Similar statistics are repeated across the world between those living in poverty and others.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The poor live with discrimination. Women, ethnic minorities and indigenous populations are disproportionately represented among the poor. It is no mere coincidence that 70 per cent of the world's poor are women and that that proportion is growing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Discrimination can be lessened when laws and policies are in place, but social discrimination is fed by deep-seated prejudices. And sometimes, despite government policies and efforts, social discrimination, continuing prejudices and paternalistic policies are compounded by historical injustices to leave the minority disempowered and entrenched in poverty. The tendency then for the mainstream community is to blame the minority for their own condition of poverty or exclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>This reflects in many ways the situation of the indigenous communities in Australia. Many of those I met in Utopia and Alice Springs spoke of the prejudice and stigmatisation they feel they continue to be subjected to, for instance by the compulsory income management scheme, which they say has left them disempowered and disillusioned.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In Australia, indigenous women are 35 times more likely to be hospitalised due to domestic violence, and 10 times more likely to die as a result of assault. Elsie's words in Utopia are echoed by poor people everywhere. No one hears us, we have no voice. We are told what will be done. If we don't comply with their plans we do not get help. This is what poverty is about: the stuff of real human insecurity; the stuff of marginalisation, of voicelessness, of degradation, of inequality and injustice. These are human rights abuses. And so, respect for human rights is deeply relevant to the solution of poverty.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Human rights promote political participation and accountable government, which go to the heart of the issue of exclusion. 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