This article is a review of a report published by the Center for Economic and Social Rights and is a very good reading and reflection for those who want to have some insight to some of the chronic problems and challenges we are facing now at all levels . It is needless to repeat that development if it is not human and do not insure and promote human rights is not development at all. The Millennium Declaration adopted at the turn of the century expressed a global consensus that poverty is a scourge on our common humanity, which all states have a shared responsibility to eradicate. It placed human beings at the center of development, and took human rights as its normative bedrock. As affirmed in international human rights instruments, poverty is not inevitable, but a product of specific legal and policy choices.

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