Evidence Submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights for his Visit to the United Kingdom 5-16 November 2018

Webster, D. (2018) Evidence Submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights for his Visit to the United Kingdom 5-16 November 2018. Technical Report. United Nations, New York.

Abstract

This submission shows how the UK’s system of benefit sanctions, in relation to unemployed, sick and disabled people, contravenes two of the UN Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights (2012): that persons living in poverty must be recognized and treated as free and autonomous agents, with the right to make their own decisions; and that States should ensure access to adequate food.

• Item Type: Research Reports or Papers (Technical Report)
• Keywords: Welfare conditionality, benefit sanctions, food poverty, extreme poverty, human rights.
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Webster, Dr David
• Authors: Webster, D.
• Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor; H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies
• Publisher: United Nations

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