{"id":254895,"date":"2018-06-30T17:30:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=254895"},"modified":"2021-04-22T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T21:45:08","slug":"un-human-rights-chief-to-probe-extreme-poverty-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/un-human-rights-chief-to-probe-extreme-poverty-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"UN human rights chief to probe extreme poverty in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The illusion of wealthy western countries is crumbling down.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The UN will launch an investigation into extreme poverty in Britain this year. The move comes amid concern at the impact of the Tory government\u2019s austerity policies.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur for human rights and poverty, plans to go on a fact-finding mission in the autumn. It is the organization\u2019s first visit to a western European country since it went to Ireland in 2011. Earlier this month, the law expert attracted the fury of US President Donald Trump after publishing a report criticizing America\u2019s response to the fact that 40 million people were living in poverty in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Guardian, Alston said he was interested in examining the effect of the Conservative government\u2019s budget cuts. \u201cNo one is suggesting the conditions in the UK are those of a poor developing country, but every rich country, as my mission to the US showed, has pockets of poverty everywhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government statistics and a diverse array of civil society organizations would suggest the UK does have important challenges dealing with poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alston\u2019s visit to the UK has been welcomed by in some quarters but is sure to anger government officials. Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg told the Sun that the UN mission was pointless, saying: \u201cA report out last week showed a continued fall in absolute child poverty. Surely the UN has better ways of wasting money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, America\u2019s Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley labeled Alston\u2019s report on poverty in the US \u201cmisleading and politically motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his report, Alston criticized the Trump administration\u2019s elimination of \u201cbasic protections\u201d for the poorest in society. \u201cThe policies pursued over the past year seem deliberately designed to remove basic protections from the poorest, punish those who are not in employment and make even basic health care into a privilege to be earned rather than a right of citizenship,\u201d the report read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/431355-un-extreme-poverty-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/431355-un-extreme-poverty-probe\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The illusion of wealthy western countries is crumbling down. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":328716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}