Human Rights Obligations and Gender-Based Poverty in Urban Areas

This book reimagines gender-based poverty in urban areas as a human rights issue, offering a transformative legal framework to address one of the most pressing and overlooked challenges of our time.

More than half the world’s population now lives in cities, with women comprising a growing share of the urban population. Yet gender-based poverty remains a persistent and under-addressed issue in international human rights law. No existing convention explicitly tackles th…