The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) have released the latest episode of its ‘Shared Goals’ podcast. This month’s episode featured Professor Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
In this episode, Professor De Schutter and NIHRC staff discuss the different definitions of poverty and how poverty engages human rights.
The wide-ranging discussion touches on what a human rights-based approach to tackling poverty looks like; examines the effectiveness of anti-poverty strategies; explores the criminalisation of homelessness and how poverty interacts with the criminal justice system; and highlights the need to include people with lived experience of poverty in designing anti-poverty policies and strategies.