Poverty Reduction: A programme for Social Development in International Law

All people deserve the inherent right to an adequate standard of living. Thus when some people are suffering from poverty, some economic - social rights of human beings are being breached. Fighting against poverty is one of the most important parts of social development process in order to reach the goals such as equality, justice, social coherence and global peace. The factor is recognized by the international law documents and some solutions are provided to eliminate poverty. By ignoring the existence of poverty, there will be much more problems in both national and international levels. Poverty will give rise to deprivation and insecurity. Therefore in a programme for social development the importance of policy making in order to gain empowerment and improving social protection systems should be noted. Moreover, at international law cooperation is one of the main elements of social development which can remove poverty.