WORLD IS IGNORING HUMAN RIGHTS OF POOR DESPITE DISPROPORTIONATE ABUSES - UN EXPERT
(WorldNews Switzerland)

16 October 2017 GENEVA, 16 October 2017 (Issued as received) - The world`s poor are at disproportionate risk of torture, arrest, early death and domestic violence, but their civil and political rights are being airbrushed out of the picture, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston has warned in a hard-hitting statement to mark International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October. Even human rights groups are failing to draw the link between civil and political rights violations and poverty. Alston, who will report on the issue to the General Assembly later this month, said it was shocking that on the 25 anniversary of the international day, so much remained to be...