Chapter 1 | Page 33 many dying of hunger and curable diseases.89 Global inequality and poverty constitute a grave human rights abuse and the scale of suffering is far too serious to be ignored. It is hard to comprehend tolerance and apathy when, as Scott Leckie points out, ‘human suffering or death stem from preventable denials of the basic necessities of life such as food, health care or a secure place to live’.90 Existing ESC rights strategies in many States often discount the potential constraints inherent in the global economic system, particularly in neo-liberal economic policies that contribute to the violation of ESC rights.91 From this perspective, it could be argued that ESC rights realisation is a victim of globalisation. As such, widespread deprivation of ESC rights can largely be attributed to the global economic and social system that structurally disadvantages the poor.92 In fact, many scholars support the view that the global economic system contains inherent elements that lead to human rights violations and that globalisation has only made some prosper and left the majority behind.93 Moreover, it is argued that the current structure is directly and indirectly responsible for causing some to be deprived of secure access to the means of fulfilling their human rights.94 Therefore this status quo must 89 A detailed analysis of world poverty can be accessed at The World Bank and International monetary Fund, Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity (The World Bank / IMF, Washington, D.C., 2015), <http://www.worldbank.org /content/dam/Worldbank/gmr/gmr2014/GMR_2014_Full_Report.pdf>. 90 Scott Leckie, 'Another Step towards Indivisibility: Identifying the Key Features of Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights' (1998) 20 Human Rights Quarterly 81-124, 83. 91 Radhika Balakrishnan, Diane Elson and Raj Patel, 'Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective' (2010) 53(1) Development 27-36, 28. 92 Margot E Salomon, 'International Human Rights Obligations in Context: Structural Obstacles and the Demands of Global Justice' in Bård A Andreassen and Stephen P Marks (eds), Development as a Human Right (Harvard School of Public Health, 2006) 96118, 96. 93 Diane Coyle, The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters (Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2011), 122. 94 See for example, Thomas Pogge, 'Are we violating the human rights of the world's poor?' in David Kinley, Wojciech Sadurski and Kevin Walton (eds), Human Rights: Old Problems, New Possibilities (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2013) 40.