TY  - JOUR
A1  - Montero, Julio
T1  - Do affluent countries violate the human rights of the global poor?
T2  - Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric
N2  - In this article I consider Thomas Pogge’s thesis that affluent countries are violating the human rights of the global poor by contributing support to the current global institutional order. My claim is that affluent countries are not violating the human rights of the global poor in the ways suggested by Pogge. I start by defining a set of conditions that ought to obtain in order to say that a human rights violation has taken place. Then I consider two possible interpretations of Pogge’s thesis and argue that none of them fulfills the conditions required to speak of a human rights violation. On my view, as long as domestic states have the capacity to fulfill the human rights of their own people, poverty constitutes a domestic human rights violation even if the international institutional order somehow contributes to creating this state of affairs. Finally, I examine what transnational duties human rights entail and claim that affluent countries must contribute to the creation of an international order providing domestic states accurate background conditions for the promotion of human rights at the domestic level.
KW  - human rights
KW  - poverty
KW  - background adjustment
KW  - responsibility
KW  - perfect duties
KW  - Thomas Pogge
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32565
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-325656
SN  - 1835-6842
VL  - 3
SP  - 22
EP  - 41
PB  - The Global Justice Network
ER  -