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A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
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How do we make democracy work for the poor?
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SACSIS embraces a rights based approach to development, which views poverty as a denial of human rights. According to Peter Uvin, A rights-based approach to development re-defines the nature and problems of the development enterprise into claims, duties and mechanisms that can promote, respect and adjudicate the violation of human rights. Typically this brings about a root cause approach, focusing on state policy and discrimination. Significantly, the move from needs to rights and charity...
