Enforcing economic and social human rights [Ejecutando los derechos humanos económicos y sociales]

In this article explicates the human right to be free from poverty by examining the duties it entails for different actors. Its discusses the complex relations between negative and positive rights and duties. I argue with Sengupta that the primary duty to eradicate poverty falls upon the state in which it occurs and that the duty of the affluent countries is subsidiary to that of the developing states. I conclude, that is necessary recognized a responsibility for social institu- tions and their effects, but this discussion of this responsibility is primarily focused on domestic institutional factors involved in the perpetuation of poverty