Essays on Pogge

The statistics of homelessness and poverty in the world are shocking and they point to the need for urgent action to prevent disasters to humanity. The United Nations habitat department states that by 2015 there were 1.6 billion people who are either homeless or live in inadequate shelters (habitat.org). Out of these 100 million people are completely homeless while 1 billion live in informal settlements (habitat.org). This means that one in every four people across the world lives in conditions that harm their safety, health opportunities and prosperity. However, homelessness is a manifestation of even larger and more complicated ...

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Introduction Maurice Cranston expressed skepticism over the status of social, cultural, and economic rights as genuine human rights. Cranston gave various objections for the status of social, cultural, and economic rights as genuine human rights. The context in which these reasons are best understood is the context in which the concept of genuine human rights is understood. This paper explores the reasons for which Cranston denies the social, cultural, and economic rights the status of genuine human rights. This feat will be achieved by considering the concept of genuine human rights. Cranston makes two significant objections to the status ...

Provide Maurice Cranston's and Thomas Pogge's accounts of human rights. How do they differ or similar? Evaluate their accounts from your point of view and explain your reasons. Maurice Cranston was controversial in his views on human rights as he thought that the welfare state did not really exist at all and did not actually provide the respite for which it was created. He was also an objector to conflict in the Second World War and was a great pacifist as he was also very much an opinionist on world affairs and his account of human rights focused on ...