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Annual York Human Rights City Lecture – Poverty: A human rights perspective Baroness Ruth Lister of Burtersett, Loughborough University

May 12, 2022 @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm

FREE but booking required - see entry for details

Annual York Human Rights City Network Lecture

Organized through the Centre for Applied Human Rights in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

We are delighted that Ruth Lister has agreed to give this lecture as York prepares for its own Poverty Truth Commission.

Ruth Lister is a member of the House of Lords and the Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University. Formerly she was the Director of the Child Poverty Action Group and is a leading and longstanding campaigner against poverty.  In 2004 she published the first edition of Poverty – widely proclaimed as the definitive book of the time.

The second edition of her book published in December 2020 explores key concepts around poverty, in particular making links between poverty and human rights, agency and citizenship.  Poverty makes the case for reframing the politics of poverty as a claim for recognition and redistribution. The right to an adequate standard of living is one of the five priority rights chosen by the people of York, at the time of launching York as the UK’s first Human Rights City.

Book here – https://www.york.ac.uk/cahr/events/2022/poverty-human-rights-perspective/

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Date:
May 12, 2022
Time:
6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Cost:
FREE but booking required - see entry for details

Organiser

University of York Open Lecture Series
Phone
01904 324778
Email
publiclectures@york.ac.uk
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