Thursday, July 23, 2020

Empowering and Enabling The Marginalised to Combat Poverty


Human Rights At Law Forum believes that it is important and necessary to enable the marginalised to exercise active participation as leaders in combating poverty.

In several communities, people living in poverty are denied the information, freedom of expression and means of active participation in decisions which affect their lives. We are therefore focusing on means of increasing the recognition of participation rights of people living in poverty, as well as their right to information and to defend their human rights.

HRALF is working regularly in partnership with other stakeholders in seeking to create models of good practice for the participation of affected individuals and communities.

Our approach to the Sustainable Development Goals, especially goal one which is to end poverty, will be a broader aim to change the debate on poverty and create a strategic platform in the discussion and the understanding of the causes of poverty.

HRALF will reach out to a wide range of audiences and introduce a new analysis that people especially in rural communities can draw on in their understanding of and their approach to poverty – one that is human rights centred.

Through community action and public engagement, we will aim to create a broad based and visible constituency that both understands the role that human rights abuses play in driving and deepening poverty and advocate for the respect, protection and fulfilment of human rights as part of the solution to poverty.

Chair,
Human Rights At Law Forum

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