In September 2022, 10 years had passed since the Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights were adopted by the Human Rights Council. The Guiding Principles, as a soft law human rights instrument, were designed to be a useful tool for states in the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction and eradication policies. In this piece, I examine to what extent this objective has been met. Based on empirical research involving states’ representatives and civil society organizations, and analysis of the documents produced by United Nations bodies that played a key role in developing a human rights-based approach to poverty, I argue that this objective has been met only to a limited extent.

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万事开头难：关于极端贫困和人权的指导原则在其通过十年后

2022 年 9 月，人权理事会通过《极端贫困与人权指导原则》已过去 10 年。《指导原则》作为一项软性人权文书，旨在成为各国制定和实施减贫和消除贫困政策的有用工具。在这篇文章中，我检查了这个目标在多大程度上得到了满足。根据涉及国家代表和民间社会组织的实证研究，以及对在制定基于人权的贫困方法方面发挥关键作用的联合国机构编制的文件的分析，我认为这一目标仅在程度有限。