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The place of human rights in The Future We Want : Comments
By Bridget Lewis, published 29/6/2012Why should human rights be included in a declaration on the future of sustainable development?
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I mean, a person’s rights and choices in life are severely restricted if they stuck in the poverty trap in somewhere like Eritrea or Somalia.
Also in developed countries which are suffering increasing resource stress, civil unrest and an eroding rule of law, human rights are poor for many and getting worse.
So the very efforts to achieve sustainable societies, where the resource demand (population growth) is not constantly increasing, and where the demand can be comfortably met by a sustainable supply capability with a big safety margin, are by far the main means of addressing human rights.
Indeed, struggling to address them within an ongoing regime of poverty or resource stress is not likely to achieve a lot, is it?