Critical Analysis: World Poverty and Human Rights by Thomas Pogge

This report analyzes Thomas Pogge's article on world poverty and human rights, examining the complex relationship between poverty and human rights, particularly in the context of economic and social rights. The analysis highlights the article's key statistics, such as the number of people lacking access to basic necessities, and discusses the impact of government policies, child labor, and civil wars on global inequality. The essay critiques the arguments presented, acknowledging the role of government initiatives while also pointing out the persistence of poverty and exploitation. The report also addresses the role of rich countries, income inequalities, and the influence of powerful entities in perpetuating poverty and human rights violations, as discussed by Pogge. The essay concludes by emphasizing the urgent need for greater attention to these critical global issues and the exploitation of human rights.

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Critical essay in the world poverty and human rights: Thomas Pogge
In this article, author has stated that human rights can be realized properly of the
entire human being will give the access to their rights. In the recent time, human rights are
directly or indirectly connected with the poverty. The connection of the poverty is direct in
the case of economic and social human rights such as right to live with adequate health as
well as with the wellbeing of their family. It is not completely true because person can get the
employment by undertaking proper research. Government of several countries are providing
the several opportunities to grow their talent in the market.
Statistics are also presented in the article. Among the total 6575 million of the human
being, around 1100 million people do not have the safe drinking water, 830 million people
are chronically undernourished, and 2600 million people are having the lack of access to the
basic necessity things and sanitation. In addition to this, it is also stated in the article that
millions of people do not have the easy access to the significant drugs. In the critique of this
article, it can be said that government in today’s time is providing the free medicines to the
people. Besides providing the drugs, people are not availing the services. Therefore, it is not
always true that poverty is increasing even after making efforts. However, it is true that
millions of the people have to face the situation of child labour. It is the serious issue that has
taken its wings to a large extent. Government is required to take the strict actions in order to
remove this issue.
Due to the poverty, around one of the death cause every year. In the entire 20th
century, many people faced the issues due to the civil wars, wars, and government repression.
Several facts and figures are also presented by the author in this article. In addition to this,
millions of people also have lack of electricity. Females and people of colour also tend to
bear the inequality in some or other way. As the US government has also declared after the
World Food Summit: “the attainment of any ‘right to adequate food’ or ‘fundamental right to
be free from starving’ is a objective or aspiration to be realized progressively that does not
give rise to any international responsibilities.”
From the article, it is understood that increase in the income inequalities also leading
to the poverty to some extent. The response of rich countries is mainly rhetorical. The long-
term decline has been seen due to the inequality among the people. With the help of

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international NGO, only $10 billion get the basic social services. It is also mentioned in the
article that the citizens of the rich citizen should contribute some of the amount for the poor
people. However, it is not right because if a person does hard work, he or she will definitely
get the return.
It is true that the incompetent and corrupt leaders run many of the developing
countries. They are not ready to take the efforts for removing the poverty. However, some of
the government is taken several actions for the poor people. Some of the people are getting
employment because they are making efforts to work. Those who do not work are not getting
employment. In addition to this, civil wars as well as corruption have also increased the
inequalities.
The strong reason has been presented in the article is the power holding people who
rule the poor people. They are also entitled to sell the resources of the company. Besides this,
it is stated that rich countries used to favour the own companies through Quotas, tariffs,
export credits, anti-dumping duties, and the various type of subsidies. In this regard, article
has said that every person has the right to of adequate food as well as the right to free from
hunger. Besides this, it has also mentioned that human right allow the ways entail the
negative duty. It has also clearly stated that the entire officials and rulers of this country also
want to gain the interest of corporations, wealthy foreign government, and tourists. In this
way, they also tend to exploit the people in huge way. It has also stated that the problem has
increased to the great extent and now become quite unsolved. It is because rich people are not
giving proper emphasis to the poor people. It is also one such reason of the poverty and
exploitation of human rights (Pogge, 2005).

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References
Pogge, T. (2005). World poverty and human rights. Ethics & international affairs, 19(1), 1-7.