Exploring the link between poverty and human rights in Africa
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Date
2020
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Pretoria University Law Press
Abstract
Poverty remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in this
century. Despite the fact that the world is blessed with natural and human
resources, a significant number of people, particularly in developing
countries, still live in abject poverty. Recent developments show that
efforts at combating poverty across the globe are yielding positive results
as there seems to be a significant decrease in the number of people living
in extreme poverty in poor regions. The picture is not all rosy, however, as
there remains a great cause for concern as the world’s poorest people still
live in developing countries.
An estimated 736 million people worldwide – the majority in South
Asia and Africa – live in extreme poverty.1
Indeed, half of these people
live in five countries, namely, India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia and Bangladesh.2
Almost 1,4 billion people
are living in extreme poverty.3
The poverty situation in many developing
countries, particularly Africa, is exacerbated by famine, conflict, the
lack of access to basic services such as health care, water, sanitation and
electricity, unemployment and corruption. While the majority of persons
living in extreme poverty are found in developing countries, some of them
also live in developed countries.
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Poverty, South Africa, Human rights, Inequality, Socio-economic rights
Citation
Durojaye, E. and Mirugi-Mukundi, G .(2020). Exploring the link between poverty and human rights in Africa. Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press.