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Wordsinto

ActionBasic rights and the

campaign againstworld poverty

Pat Simmons

Oxfam

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Contents

Acknowledgements 4

The Oxfam Global Charter for Basic Rights 5

The widening gap 7

The vision that faded 11

Stacking the odds against the poor 13

Time for a new vision 3 1

Basic rights and an end to poverty 35

Caught in the poverty trap 66

An agenda for change 78

Campaigning for change 88

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 107

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Acknowledgements

I wo uld like to than k the following p eople for their help :

Kevin Watkins, whose Oxfam Poverty Report I have plagiarised

frequently and at length; and L indsay jud ge , whose research on

basic rights I have draw n on extensively.

My colleagues in Oxfam 's Resources Unit, most of who m will

recognise pieces of their own writing intertwined with mine.

Pedro Arias, who helped to prepare many of the statistical

graphics.

The many staff in Oxfam's central and regional Campaigns

offices, w ho m ade the time to discuss this book w ith me and togive me Information, suggestions, reports, and photogra phs.

Dianna M elrose, and other Overseas Division staff, for advice

and comments.

Colleagues in Oxfam's Photo Library, and Liz Clayton, for

their help with photogr aphs.

All the cartoons are from Baobab, a magazine produced by theArid Lands Information Network, in Senegal.

Pat Simmons

Oxford, August 1995