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Human Rights, Public Law, Constitutional Law Rishika Sahgal Human Rights, Public Law, Constitutional Law Rishika Sahgal

Poverty as a Ground in South Africa and India

Ahead of her upcoming publication in CCR XIV, Dr Rishika Sahgal analyses and critiques two cases decided by the apex courts in India and South Africa in 2022, Janhit Abhiyan and Social Justice Coalition. These cases reveal that even when poverty is recognised as a ground within equality law, several tensions or barriers to achieving substantive equality for the impoverished may arise.

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Human Rights, International Law Olivier De Schutter Human Rights, International Law Olivier De Schutter

Povertyism is a Major Obstacle to the Eradication of Poverty. It’s Time to Ban it.

United Nations Special Rapporteur, Olivier De Schutter calls for an end to ‘povertyism’ - the discrimination & negative attitudes that bar people in poverty from fully accessing their rights and for states to include socio-economic status as a suspect ground in national anti-discrimination frameworks.

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