Reports

The Special Rapporteur submits one thematic report to the UN Human Rights Council in June and one to the UN General Assembly in October every year.

October 2023

The working poor: a human rights approach to wages

June 2023

The employment guarantee as a tool in the fight against poverty

October 2022

Banning discrimination on grounds of socioeconomic disadvantage: an essential tool in the fight against poverty

June 2022

Non-take-up of rights in the context of social protection

October 2021

The persistence of poverty: how real equality can break the vicious cycles

June 2021

Global Fund for Social Protection: international solidarity in the service of poverty eradication

October 2020

The “just transition” in the economic recovery: Eradicating poverty within planetary boundaries

June 2020

Philip Alston: The parlous state of poverty eradication

October 2019

Philip Alston: Digital welfare states and human rights

June 2019

Philip Alston: Climate change and poverty

October 2018

Philip Alston: Privatization and human rights

June 2018

Philip Alston: The role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in relation to social protection

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