GENEVA / NEW YORK (24 October 2014) – UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, today urged Governments around the world to embrace the United Nations Social...

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - Friday 17 October 2014 GENEVA (17 October 2014) – If poverty is ever really to be eradicated, States will need to adopt a human rights-based approach...

Rethinking the World Bank's Approach to Human Rights Philip Alston * Keynote address to the Nordic Trust Fund for Human Rights and Development Annual Workshop on "The Way Forward", The World Bank...

GENEVA (25 June 2014) – Three UN experts* on the human rights to water and sanitation, adequate housing, and extreme poverty and human rights expressed concern Wednesday about reports of widespread...

GENEVA (29 April 2014) – “It is time for the Government of Spain to change course,” the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda, said today...

“Women’s economic empowerment is a mirage if we ignore unpaid work done at home” GENEVA (8 March 2014) – On International Women’s Day, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and...

Members of the press, ladies and gentlemen, I am addressing you today in relation to my official visit to Guinea-Bissau from 23 February to 1 March 2014, which I am undertaking at the invitation of...

BISSAU (28 February 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda, today called on the political and military authorities of Guinea-Bissau “to...

GENEVA / BISSAU (21 February 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Magdalena Sepúlveda will undertake an official visit to Guinea-Bissau from 24 February to 1 March 2014 to collect first-hand...

GENEVA (17 February 2014) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged Kenya to repeal sections of the Marriage and Property Act which effectively deny women the right to marital...