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The differences in the American life experienced between races are not simply the derivatives of wealth inequality. In fact, this wealth inequality is derivative to complex historical and social influences that cannot be corrected for simply with an evaluation of one’s social and economic status that devalues...
Secretary General of Amnesty International Irene Z. Khan said at the Harvard Book Store yesterday that poverty should be considered a serious human rights violation, rather than simply an economic status, a view that she said goes against traditional perceptions of poverty.
During her talk, Khan cited examples from around the world to support her main point—that economic and social rights are inextricably intertwined with political and civil ones.
“You need that civil and political right to defend the social and economic one. You need one to promote and defend the other,” Rubenstein said.
“We now have an administration that is channeling the Roosevelt administration, which produced the belief that people have the rights to be free of fear and free of want. Fear and want stem from social and economic issues,” Rubenstein said. “It?...