Indivisibility: responses to poverty should be cross-sectoral and include economic, social and political
interventions. This is essential to addressing the multi-dimensional aspects of poverty, and the way in
which all human rights are interrelated, interdependent and interconnected.
Accountability: responses to poverty should empower those experiencing poverty to challenge the
status quo and ensure mechanisms to enable rights holders to enforce their rights, including the
enforcement of Te Tiriti obligations.
Non-Discrimination and Equality: responses to poverty must address formal and substantive inequities
in laws and policies and differences in the distribution and delivery of resources and services.
Participation: responses to poverty must ensure that those experiencing poverty are entitled to
participate in and be included in decision making about the design, implementation and monitoring of
poverty interventions. This also includes ensuring authentically Tiriti-based decision making and equity,
including supporting tangata whenua to lead their own solutions and equity of outcomes.
Transparency: responses to poverty should ensure everyone affected has access to information, and
clarity and transparency about decision-making processes and actions.
Sustainability: responses to poverty should include proactive long-term measures aimed at achieving
significant development targets.
Certainty: responses to poverty should be based on the application of accepted laws and standards, to
ensure predictability and support accountability, participation, and transparency.
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International human rights provide a framework of norms or rules upon which
detailed global, national and community-level poverty eradication policies can
be constructed. While poverty raises complex multi-sectoral issues that are not
amenable to simple solutions, the application of the international human rights
normative framework to these issues helps to ensure that essential elements of
anti-poverty strategies, such as non-discrimination, equality, participation and
accountability, receive the sustained attention they deserve.45
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Human Rights Responses to Poverty in Working Households