Ochrona osób żyjących w ubóstwie w świetle prawa międzynarodowego
The protection of people living in poverty in the light of international public law

Summary/Abstract: Fight with poverty is the biggest challenge facing humanity in XXI c. The international community undertakes actions which are aimed at specific objectives e.g. decreasing by half the number of people living in abject poverty within a specific period of time. Such a task-based approach to the problem of poverty allows giving legal acts a particular wording and specifying tools thanks to which it will be possible to execute subsequent tasks. However, not all solutions are efficient, all the more, that protection of people living in poverty is defined in documents which, most often, do not have a binding character in the understanding of international law. The aim of the present paper is an attempt to define rights of people who live in poverty, based on the analysis of documents adopted by particular states. These rights are not only dispersed, but also, unfortunately, majority of them have only the character of postulated standards and not real commitments of countries towards their citizens. Undoubtedly, within the scope of the process of diminishing poverty there is a need for a public debate at the international level. A complete elimination of this problem does not seem possible due to various factors which are outside the legal scope, but it does not mean that the international community should accept their impotence.

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