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International Human Rights Day
Rooting out the poverty is a human right
On this year’s International Human Rights Day, 10 December, the United Nations called for the world government to put efforts to resolve the problem with the poverty in the world and stand in the way of poor people discrimination and deprive poor people of the foundations of their human rights. UN declared poverty the motive of this year’s Human Rights Day since they find it to be the reason and the consequence from the human rights violation.
In this occasion it was pointed that the poor people are usually those that are deprived of their human rights, and as such, they are victims of discrimination and pursuit. Mack Darrow, from the UN Human Rights Department said that in the last ten years, the poverty began being treated as an issue related to the human rights, and not as an economic problem. It is a reason for insufficient access to proper education, insufficient personal security, lack of ability to take part in the public life and the ruling structures of the society.
The researches have made the international development agencies understand poverty as social exclusion and discrimination and as being excluded from the political and economic power. Mack Darrow, who also coordinates the UN Millennium Goals Program says that people find it hard to understand poverty from the point of view of violating human rights. Usually, the poverty is being referred to as a tragic, but inevitable fact. Darrow points outs that poor people are usually judged and for their condition, blaming them for being lazy and saying they did not deserve anything better.
As part of the Millennium Goals, the world countries promised to root out the extreme poverty by 2015. The time is running out for this optimistic promise. Therefore, UN calls for the countries to speed up that process. Rooting the poverty out is a human right.
The Human Rights Declaration was adopted in the UN on 10 December 1948. In 1966, they also adopted the International Civil and Political Rights Convention as well as the International Convention for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. All three form part of the International Charter of Rights. The International Human Rights Day celebrates those accomplishments.
A.T.
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