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genugten b.00prelims 17/7/07 10:47 Page i The Poverty of Rights Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty genugten b.00prelims 17/7/07 10:47 Page ii About CROP CROP is a response from the academic community to the problem of poverty. The programme was initiated in 1992, and the CROP Secretariat was officially opened in June 1993 by the director-general of UNESCO, Dr Federico Mayor. In recent years poverty alleviation, reduction or even eradication has moved up the international agenda, and the CROP network is providing research-based information to policy-makers and others responsible for poverty reduction. Researchers from more than 100 countries have joined the CROP network, with more than 40 per cent coming from so-called developing countries and countries in transition. The major aim of CROP is to produce sound and reliable knowledge which can serve as a basis for poverty reduction. This is done by bringing together researchers for workshops, coordinating research projects and publications, and offering educational courses for the international community of policy-makers. Crop Publications Poverty, Research Projects, Institutes, Persons, ed. Tinka Ewold-Leicher and Arnaud F. Marks, Tilburg, Bergen and Amsterdam, 1995, 248 pp. Urban Poverty: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences, ed. David Satterthwaite, special issue of Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 7, No. 1, April 1995, 284 pp. Urban Poverty: From Understanding to Action, ed. David Satterthwaite, special issue of Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 7, No. 3, October 1995, 284 pp. Women and Poverty – The Feminization of Poverty, ed. Ingrid Eide, The Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO and CROP, Oslo and Bergen, 1995 (in Norwegian), 56 pp.
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