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  • Professor Philip Alston

    United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights; John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School

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  1. Podcast15 July 2016 - Up Close

    Freedom from extreme poverty as a human right

    Philip Alston argues that the conversation around human rights has yet to take seriously how the world’s very poor are excluded from a life of dignity.