Conference on the Eradication of Absolute Poverty

Seminar on extreme poverty and denial of human rights

Seminar on Extreme Poverty in Africa

Independent expert of the Commission on Human Rights on human rights and extreme poverty

Poverty eradication || Eradicate extreme poverty Could include extreme income and multidimensional poverty || Reduce the proportion of people vulnerable to extreme poverty and living on less than $2 a day Could cover “at risk of poverty” lines and higher poverty thresholds || Reduce the proportion of people living below national poverty lines, including persons belonging to vulnerable groups Could cover absolute and relative poverty lines according to nationally grounded definitions of poverty || Reduce the cost of remittances and reduce the costs of migration, including recruitment costs Could include transaction costs, recruitment cost ...[+++]s and financial inclusion of migrants and their families || Ensure secure rights to land, property, and other assets Could include land tenure, infrastructure, financial inclusion and seasonality of income || Build resilience and reduce deaths and economic loss from disasters Could include risk assessment and disaster risk management; early warning systems; financial mechanisms and recovery framework; , and linking of relief, rehabilitation and development

Health || Reduce child mortality, maternal mortality and ensure universal sexual and reproductive health and rights Could include infant and maternal mortality, adolescent fertility and access to family planning || Reduce the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases Could include the main communicable and non-communicable diseases || Achieve effective and equitable universal coverage with quality health services for all including for vulnerable people, such as persons with disabilities or older people Could include health promotion, preventive services, treatment and rehabilitation and availability and quality of health workforce || Ensure that no-one is pushed into extreme ...[+++] poverty or remains there because of expenditure on health care Could include impoverishment due to out of pocket payments || ||

26. Welcomes the joint initiative launched by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, and the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, to strengthen social protection systems in developing countries through a Global Fund for Social Protection, by means of which international solidarity can be transposed to benefit the least developed countries; asks the Commission to provide support for these programmes;

In the current context of extreme poverty for the vast majority of the population, that could mean additional costs for the companies to increase security for their operations against the local communities that are not benefiting from the exploitation of their resources.