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DESCRIPTION:In our rapidly globalizing age with economic growth occurring in almost 
 every corner of the world, it is easy to forget that more than one billion 
 people still live on less than one dollar a day. Poverty is the worst 
 human-rights crisis in the world today, denying billions of people their 
 most basic rights. In a bracing argument enriched by compelling photographs 
 from across the world, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan 
 makes the case that poverty remains a global epidemic because we continue 
 to define it as an economic problem whose only solution is foreign aid and 
 investment. Khan calls for a reevaluation of this longstanding assumption 
 and turns us toward confronting poverty as a human-rights violation. 
 Empowering the poor with basic rights of security is our only chance for 
 eradicating poverty and giving freedom and dignity to those who have never 
 experienced it.\n\nThe Unheard Truth is a powerful argument by the 
 secretary general of Amnesty International that poverty is not just an 
 economic problem but a global human-rights violation.\n\nIrene Khan, as the 
 first woman and first Asian secretary general of Amnesty International, has 
 brought a strong focus to socioeconomic rights and violence against women 
 around the world. Previously, she spent 20 years at the United Nations High 
 Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and was appointed in 1995 as the Chief 
 Mission to India, becoming the youngest United Nations representative. She 
 lives with her husband and daughter in London.\n\n"An essential book for 
 anyone serious about ending poverty: Khan makes a passionate, nuanced case 
 that no solution will work unless it empowers the world's poor with the 
 basic economic, social, and legal rights to assure them a strong voice in 
 shaping their own lives." - Hernando de Soto, chair, Commission on Legal 
 Empowerment of the Poor.\n\nMitch Jeserich introduces. \n\n$10 advance at 
 independent bookstores, or Brown Paper Tickets at 800-838-3006 /$13 door\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/08/18624803.php
SUMMARY:Irene Khan: The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way\nBerkeley, CA 
 94704\n510-848-3696\nhttp://www.fccb.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/08/18624803.php
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