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Appendix A - Manifesto: international action to defeat poverty

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  • 1. Introduce and develop schemes to fulfil fundamental right to social security (Article 22 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). To be implemented by introducing or extending social security and especially public provision of social insurance and/or basic income for all citizens.

  • 2. Legally enforce right to adequate standard of living (Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). To be implemented by adoption of state-defined minimum earnings in conjunction with statedefined minimum cash benefits for those not in paid work, including the equivalent value of benefits (goods and services) in kind.

  • 3. Introduce or strengthen legal right to child benefit (Articles 25 and 27 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child). Provision to be made for every child of a monthly cash benefit, or the equivalent in value included of goods and services, which is universally adequate, to surmount material and social deprivation.

  • 4. All developed countries to adopt legally binding minimum level of 1% GNP overseas development assistance. To be introduced first by the EU, immediately in the case of some member states, and in stages by the poorer member states, and extended to all OECD countries.

  • 5. Establish universal right of access locally to publicly provided basic health care and education services (with reference to Articles 21, 25 and 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but also such objectives as agreed by governments at the Copenhagen World Summit for Social Development). The purpose here is to clarify and give tangible support for the provision in all countries of a network of geographically accessible institutions and services, and check annually about introduction and coverage. National plans to be underwritten jointly by governments and the UN. Easy access to safe drinking water and sanitation must be included in the provision within a defined number of years of “equal access to public service” (Article 21).

  • 6. Provide temporary and permanent public housing units for homeless people and people living in seriously substandard accommodation. The aim must be to prioritise the housing needs of the poorest 10% of the population by means of national and local ownership and administration of minimally adequate standard accommodation. The needs of immigrant, asylum-seeking and resident families must be balanced fairly in the programme.

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World Poverty
New Policies to Defeat an Old Enemy
, pp. 433 - 436
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Print publication year: 2002

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