Human rights and extreme poverty

This research deals with the processes of empowerment of individuals and groups in community projects comparing projects working on the basis of rights-based approaches and methodologies with projects working on the basis of community empowerment without resorting to a rights framework or to rights-based thinking.

The hypothesis of the project is that human rights are not necessarily decisive in determining collective action and empowerment, but that human rights may be more effective in mobilising people in extreme poverty and in creating more sustainable, enduring processes of empowerment.

Partners

Research Institutions in the respective regional countries. International department