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‘Poverty is a human rights violation' by J Venkatesan


Prof. Thomas Pogge of Yale University on Tuesday strongly advocated the need for global institutional reforms to eradicate poverty, ensure human rights and secure global justice. He suggested establishing a Health Impact Fund (HIF) to complement the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

Prof. Pogge made these observations while delivering the First Dr. Arjun K. Sengupta Memorial Lecture at O. P. Jindal Global University in Sonepat near Delhi.

Prof. Pogge said: “Today most human beings are unable to realise their human rights even though the fulfilment of human rights is directly connected to poverty.” Citing statistics of human rights violations, he expressed concern over the fact that roughly one-third of all human deaths – about 50,000 of them daily – “are due to poverty-related causes that are easily preventable through better nutrition, safe drinking water, vaccines and medicines”.

He pointed out that severe poverty and the massive burden of disease must be seen as human rights violations when they are the foreseeable effects of active conduct by human agents, an effect these agents could avoid without undue hardship. He was of the view that powerful countries, corporations and citizens have violated the human rights of the global poor when, for the sake of minor gains, they did things that aggravated severe poverty and disease.

Prof. Pogge said the regulation of trade through protectionist barriers, intellectual property, profit-and-loss reporting, banking deposits, labour standards, sovereign borrowing, resource exports, and international trade in arms contribute to poverty.

Spelling out details of the Health Impact Fund, Prof. Pogge said innovators can voluntarily register any new medicine with the HIF.