The most widely underfulfilled human right today is “the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and of one’s family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control” (1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25(1)). This human right remains unfulfilled for over half of humankind. Lifelong severe poverty has always been the fate of a majority of human beings. What is new in recent decades is that such poverty is almost entirely avoidable.
We build independent, alternative and critical knowledge and education, and inform policy
Our key objectives are to:
Promote critical interdisciplinary and comparative research on the nature, extent, depth, distribution, trends, causes and effects of poverty
Produce knowledge with relevance to diverse policy communities and create spaces for dialoguing with various policy actors at national, regional and global levels.
Contribute to building and enhancing global comparative research capacities.
Undertake critical analysis and monitoring of national and international policy responses to poverty everywhere.
See: About CROP - Vision
