Extreme Poverty

Extreme poverty is a condition in which people are unable to meet their basic needs for food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare. It is a severe and chronic problem that affects millions of people around the world. Extreme poverty is often caused by a combination of factors, such as lack of access to education, limited job opportunities, and inadequate healthcare and social services. It can also be the result of natural disasters, conflict, or other crisis situations. To address extreme poverty, it is important to implement policies that promote economic growth and social inclusion, as well as provide support to those in need.

A lost generation: The grim reality of child labour and exploitation in India – Hindustan Times
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A lost generation: The grim reality of child labour and exploitation in India – Hindustan Times

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Exacerbated by Covid-19 and India’s unemployment crisis, child trafficking remains rampant across India despite many legal protections. This needs urgent attention. The 2011 census paints a grim picture and records that one in every 11 working individuals in India is a child in the age group of 5-18 years. (AP/Representative Image) Updated on Jun 21, 2022…

Ground report: How cyclones Amphan & Yaas pushed girls from the Sundarbans into trafficking
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Ground report: How cyclones Amphan & Yaas pushed girls from the Sundarbans into trafficking

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Cyclone-battered South 24 Paraganas is one of country’s poorest districts & hunting ground for traffickers It has been a stormy life for cousins Tisha and Salima. Growing up in the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, they remember cyclones as major milestones in their lives. Still in their teens, they have endured…

Defence For Children Netherlands: Global developments in the sexual exploitation of children
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Defence For Children Netherlands: Global developments in the sexual exploitation of children

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PRESS RELEASE   The Netherlands, 13 June 2022   The influence of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and increasing food insecurity on the sexual exploitation of children worldwide.  Internationally, the risks of children becoming victims of sexual exploitation have increased, both in real life and by technology. Climate change, food insecurities, and conflict exacerbate the risks…

Human trafficking: UN chief calls for action as COVID leaves ‘many millions’ more vulnerable
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Human trafficking: UN chief calls for action as COVID leaves ‘many millions’ more vulnerable

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Highlighting how the COVID pandemic has pushed as many as 124 million more people into extreme poverty, the UN chief insisted that “many millions” have been left vulnerable to the scourge.

The impact of COVID-19 on human rights
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The impact of COVID-19 on human rights

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I want to focus on how COVID-19 has changed the structural environment in Latin America and what this means for human rights. Also, what it means for crime and anti-crime policies and consequently on human rights issues. Let me first start with those structural changes. Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has had an effect so far…

Ahead of World Day against human trafficking, UN expert stresses States’ obligation to stop ‘gross human rights violations’
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Ahead of World Day against human trafficking, UN expert stresses States’ obligation to stop ‘gross human rights violations’

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Many of those falling prey to traffickers are migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers who have left their country of origin for various reasons; including conflict, natural disaster, persecution or extreme poverty. “They have left behind their social protection network, and are particularly vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation,” said Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, Special Rapporteur on…