Media contributions
1Media contributions
Title Poverty, Human Rights and The Cost of Living Crisis Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet Faculti Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 2/09/24 Description This article takes the opportunity of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to reflect on the relationship between the UDHR and the recently labelled cost-of-living crisis. It argues that it is inaccurate to suggest that the cost-of-living crisis is a new crisis. Rather, the cost-of-living crisis is merely the label given to the intensification in depth and scale of a longstanding and neglected perma-crisis: poverty. It is contested that poverty represents a lack of resilience (vulnerability) to broader crises; that there is a need to recognise and respond to economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs) to address poverty; and that through doing so human rights can be harnessed to facilitate societal and individual resilience to prevent future intensifications of poverty (cost-of-living crises). At the same time as facilitating resilience, increased recognition of, and responsiveness to, ESCRs would also serve to fulfil the promise of the UDHR. URL https://faculti.net/poverty-human-rights-and-the-cost-of-living-crisis/ Persons Luke Graham