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UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/11/9 27 March 2009 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Eleventh session Agenda item 3 PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT Report of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona* * Late submission. GE.09-12657 (E) 170409

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Report of the independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona

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Rights Involved

Right to adequate housing
Right to education
Right to food
Right to health
Right to social security
Rights of persons with disabilities
Rights of the child
Rights of women and girls

Issue

Accountability
Minimum core obligations
Non-discrimination
Participation
Resource allocation
Resource expenditure
Transparency

Special Procedure

Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

Date: Mar 27, 2009

Summary: This report focuses on cash transfer programmes (CTPs), non-contributory programmes providing payments in the form of cash to individuals or households to increase the real income and minimum level of consumption. Over time, the right to social security must be realized fully by states in accordance with their maximum available resources. To devote “the maximum of its available resources” does not require a State to devote all the resources at its disposal nor, obviously, does it require it to devote resources that it does not have in order to fulfil these rights. Nevertheless, the allocation of resources is not left to the complete discretion of States. They have a duty to move as expeditiously and effectively as possible and must accord a degree of priority to human rights in the allocation of resources, collect disaggregated data, devise and adopt a plan of action, and monitor the realization of these rights among other obligations.

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