‘In this approach, the central issue is not just economic growth, but the extent to which each individual has command over economic resources. Socio-economic human rights are, accordingly, given a constitutive place, with other human rights also entering the equation as instrumental and constraint-based considerations. What then is the content of a human rights approach to poverty reduction? The report highlights five principal elements. Expressed telegraphically, these are: (1) empowerment of the poor and their participation in poverty reduction strategies; (2) explicit recognition of the relevance of obligations correlative to human rights; (3) accountability for compliance with human rights and access to mechanisms of accountability by the poor; (4) non-discrimination in the application of law and policy; and (5) international co-operation and the progressive realisation of socio-economic rights, subject to proviso that certain core obligations have immediate effect. For the authors of the report, the primary significance of a human rights approach to poverty reduction is this catalogue and the practical experience and interpretive corpus that come along with it. At the same time, andmore generally, what is significant is the basic idea that poverty reduction is not simply a matter of charity, prudence or good practice, but can instead be claimed as a right that imposes legal duties on governments and others.’
International cooperation
The five elements are mention above