Symposium: World Poverty and Human Rights
World Poverty and Human Rights [Full Text]
03/30/05
Despite a high and growing global average income, billions of human beings are still condemned to lifelong severe poverty, with all its attendant evils of low life expectancy, social exclusion, ill health, illiteracy, dependency, and effective enslavement. This problem is solvable, despite its magnitude.
Author(s):
Thomas Pogge
Do We Owe the Global Poor Assistance or Rectification? [Excerpt]
03/30/05
Risse asserts that the global order "can plausibly be credited with the considerable improvements in human well-being that have been achieved over the last 200 years. Much of what Pogge says about our duties toward developing countries is therefore false."
Author(s):
Mathias Risse
Should We Stop Thinking About Poverty in Terms of Helping the Poor? [Excerpt]
03/30/05
According to what Patten calls the "need-based" view, "we have a very strong and extensive set of duties to come to the assistance of the global poor: duties that are grounded in the neediness of the poor."
Author(s):
Alan Patten
Human Rights and Positive Duties [Excerpt]
03/28/05
What kind of duties (positive or purely negative?) would we be subject to in a just global society where everyone fulfilled their duty and there was no significant risk of injustice? And what kind of duties (positive or purely negative?) do we face in a global society that falls short of the just society?
Author(s):
Rowan Cruft
Contributing and Benefiting: Two Grounds for Duties to the Victims of Injustice [Excerpt]
03/30/05
Anwander questions "the role that Pogge assigns to benefiting from injustice in the determination of our duties toward the victims of injustice. . . challenging his claim that there is a negative duty not to benefit from injustice."
Author(s):
Norbert Anwander
What Do We Owe the Global Poor? [Excerpt]
03/30/05
In this article, Satz critiques "both Pogge's use of the causal contribution principle as well as his attempt to derive all of our obligations to the global poor from the need to refrain from harming others."
Author(s):
Debra Satz
Severe Poverty as a Violation of Negative Duties [Excerpt]
03/30/05
In this article, the last in the symposium on world poverty and human rights, Pogge replies to his critics Mathias Risse, Alan Patten, Rowan Cruft, Norbert Anwander, and Debra Satz.
Author(s):
Thomas Pogge
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