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Link to Questionnaire - http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/poverty/consultation/docs/QuestionnaireFinal.pdf
Women are the highest number of
extremely poor in the world, and increasing. This has a major negative impact
on women's human rights, gender equality, women's empowerment, and the cycle of
poverty repeated in subsequent generations.
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE THE
VIEWS OF WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS, PROGRAMS ADDRESSING GENDER ISSUES, INDIVIDUAL
WOMEN, by response to this ATTACHED QUESTIONNAIRE.
Due June 1, 2011
Send Questionnaire to: registry@ohchr.org
E-Mail Contact for UN Independent
Expert on Human Rights & Extreme Poverty: ieextremepoverty@ohchr.org
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UN Independent Expert on Human
Rights & Extreme Poverty
Ms. Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona ( Chile ),
since May 2008
Report
on the Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights - The Progress report of the
Independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty on how
to improve the draft guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights is
now available online. The independent expert will present this report to the
Human Rights Council next 15 September.
Click
here to read the report.
18.
The guiding principles should recall that States parties to the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are required to directly
provide minimum essential levels of all economic, social and cultural rights
when individuals or groups are unable, for reasons beyond their control, to
realize these human rights by means at their disposal....
21. Poverty is not an inevitable
phenomenon. It is frequently a result of actions and omissions by those in
charge of State policies and other powerful economic entities....
22. The deprivations faced by
persons living in extreme poverty are often imperceptible and go far beyond
lack of income. Social exclusion and discrimination are major causes and
consequences of poverty. Due to discrimination, groups such as women, children,
racial and ethnic minorities, migrants and non-citizens, refugees, indigenous
peoples, persons with disabilities and older persons, encounter greater
challenges accessing income, assets and services and are thus particularly
vulnerable to poverty....
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