HUMAN RIGHTS AND POVERTY : Fighting Poverty, A Matter of Obligation Not Charity

Poverty is result and product from violation of human rights. These 2 restrictions which possibly made poverty becomes a serious challenge for human rights. The connection between human rights and poverty must be cleared. The people which their rights are violated, --- the victim of discrimination or insulting, for example, --- mostly are poor people. As a general, they were really hard or even impossible for them to participate in labor market, and they had minimum or no access at all for any kind services and basic capitals. In the mean time, the poor people in some communities couldn’t get their rights of education, healthy, and also a place for live. Because they really can’t pay for it. So, poverty really gave effect to human rights where poor people can not access to social economic’s rights, which is hampered their participation in public life, --- a civil and politic’s rights --- and their ability to influence the policies which is giving effect to them.

However, the poverty is rarelyseen from the side of human rights. Poverty is almost seen as a tragic matter, but unavoided, and even as a responsibility of themselves who live in poverty. The good opinion for them who live in poverty, --- country and individual --- are seen as unlucky people, or its worse they are seen as lazy and meaningless people.

In fact, it’s really different. Any factors evoke the poverty, such as discrimination, unjustice access for capitals, and also social culture stigmatitaion have given character to the poverty itself. The other name of these factors: the denial of human rights and dignity. Moreover, in these factors where the government and they who have authority, CAN and even SHOULD do something to it. They should commit to those matters with powerfull receiving some covenants of human rights and giving signature to international concencus to end poverty through MDGs (Millenium Development Goals) Declarations. The realization of human rights --- include fighting poverty, --- is a matter of obligation, not as an aspiration only.

(we shall overcome, we are hand-in-hand, we are not afraid,so deep in my heart i do believe..)

#side effect of “Luwak-White Coffee in the afternoon... Depok, January 2012.