Philip Alston

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La pandemia de la covid-19 y las medidas adoptadas por los Estados para mitigar, prevenir y contener la propagación del virus han generado un impacto inconmensurable en la vida y los medios de subsistencia de los casi 8.000 millones de personas que habitan el planeta. La pandemia y muchas de estas medidas han provocado lo que el Secretario General de la ONU ha descrito como una paralela “pandemia de abusos contra los derechos humanos” y el incremento de la pobreza y la desigualdad en todo el mundo.

La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha pedido a los Estados que sitúen los derechos humanos en el centro de sus respuestas a la pandemia, incluyendo la garantía del acceso universal a las vacunas, los medicamentos y las tecnologías sanitarias contra la covid-19.…  Seguir leyendo »

A boy sits on an abandoned boat on what is left of Lake Atescatempa, which has dried up due to drought and high temperatures, in Atescatempa, Guatemala on 5 May 2017.

ReflexionesNaturaleza,

Your report warns that poor people will bear the brunt of climate change and that 120 million more people could be pushed into poverty by 2030, arguing this could potentially undo the last 50 years of progress in development. Why are poorer parts of the world especially vulnerable to extreme weather caused by climate change?

Well, I think it’s a combination of factors. Global geography means that a lot of developing countries are particularly susceptible to global warming, in other words to extreme temperatures that become normal and the associated flooding that is linked to that.

Estimates are that the total damage done by climate change could fall 75 per cent on developing countries.…  Seguir leyendo »

ReflexionesSocial,

Does it matter that the lead source of funding for, and thinking about, world development won’t go near human rights with a 10-foot pole?

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim spoke eloquently last month about the bank’s new commitment to end extreme poverty by 2030 and improve the plight of the poorest 40 percent in developing countries. In a speech at Howard University, he called for gender equity and access for the poor to food, shelter, clean water, sanitation, health care, education and jobs. But because of the bank’s long-standing aversion to discussing human rights, he never once used that forbidden phrase.…  Seguir leyendo »