Goldberg v. Kelly was an important case for welfare rights lawyers. It unquestionably gave them something to cheer about because it ensured that people like John Kelly could not lose their welfare benefits because of a ...

The plight of refugees is a significant international concern for many reasons. The sheer number of displaced persons represents disorder and societal disintegration, but more importantly, our responses to this plight ...

Of course, patents are not the only, or even the primary, roadblocks to accessible medicine in developing nations. Over one-third of the world's population lacks access to the drugs on the WHO [World Health Organization] ...

. . . I find the priority and emphasis Pogge gives to negative obligations in formulating our moral obligation to alleviate poverty to be troubling. In Pogge's work, positive obligations based on justice can only arise ...

The water inadequacies of Cochabamba are not unlike the reality of much of the developing world. . . . The key is finding the best way to maximize the right to clean water: making access affordable, environmentally ...

Migration caused by conflict is a huge yet often under-recognised problem in the world today. Sudan is an area which has some of the highest numbers of displaced persons in the world today, caused by a bloody, long-standing ...

Among industrialized nations, twenty-eight of the twenty-nine cited by the World Health Organiztion have some form of universal healthcare. The exception is the United States. Poor people are the most likely to be uninsured ...

This paper sets out to assess the value of socio-economic rights in the transformative constitutions of resource rich, post-trauma nations. In the interest of revealing assumptions and biases at the outset, the question ...

Regardless of the cause of mass loss of life, it is the responsibility of all to recognize need, acknowledge cause and provide aid in times of disaster. It is the responsibility of nations to educate their citizens to ...

The legislation that this paper examines bars them [homeless persons] from fulfilling basic needs. This paper considers what sorts of legislation criminalizes homelessness, discusses the moral and legal implications of ...