The Human Rights and Extreme Poverty Project (HUREP), co-hosted by SUM and the research umbrella Ethics, Rights and Poverty (ERP) have contributed to the latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights. The selected studies draw on original research first presented at a HUREP conference held in Kampala, Uganda in October 2007.
Table of contents
- Preface (by Frank Barnaby)
- Human Rights and Extreme Poverty: African Dimensions Introduction by the editors (by Bård Anders Andreassen and Dan Banik)
- Poverty and Human Rights in Africa: Historical Dynamics and the Case for Economic Social and Cultural Rights(by A. Byaruhanga Rukooko)
- Support for Human Rights-Based Development: Reflections on the Malawian Experience (by Dan Banik)
- Parliament and the Politics of Poverty Reduction in Uganda: A Critical Appraisal (by Robert Tumukwasibwe)
- Extreme Poverty and Its Impact on Women's Vulnerability to HIV Transmission: A Rights Issue (by Seodi White)
- Decentralisation and struggles for basic rights in Ghana: opportunities and constraints (by Gordon Crawford)
- Policing with prejudice: How policing exacerbates poverty among urban refugees (by Dulo Nyaoro)