UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Co-chair IPES-Food
Member of the Council of Europe’s European Committee of Social Rights
Professor UCLouvain & Sciences Po
> srpoverty.org
Olivier De Schutter is a Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights, with a specific focus on the role of social rights in the fight against poverty and their status in European integration: he coined the term "the Social Constitution of Europe" to describe the role of the European Social Charter on the European continent. He served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food from 2008 to 2014. He is a professor of international human rights law, European Union law and legal theory at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, as well as at the College of Europe and at Sciences Po in Paris. He was a regular visiting professor at Columbia University between 2008 and 2012 and has regularly contributed to the American University Washington College of Law's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He is the first chair of the Belgian Advisory Council on Policy Coherence for Development and he co-chairs the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), a group of experts from various disciplines and regions who work together towards developing proposals for food systems reform. A Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights between 2015 and 2020, he was appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, and took up his functions on May 1, 2020. .. more
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📣 Fin août, le rapporteur spécial des Nations unies @deschuttero.bsky.social a adressé une lettre au gouvernement français dans laquelle il exprime ses préoccupations quant à la réforme du RSA. ⤵️
Lire la lettre : spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...
But key gaps remain on #NonTakeUp, #Povertyism & #BeyondGDP.
My full reaction here: www.srpoverty.org/2025/10/30/5...
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💡 Read the paper here: www.equalright.org/publications
#JustTransition #LossAndDamage #ClimateFinance
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🗓️ 13 November
🕒 3pm UTC
🎟️ zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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In a new report, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights @deschuttero.bsky.social warns that weakening social protection fuels the rise of far-right populism.
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La communication est désormais publique: spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...
#pauvreté #protectionSociale #droitsHumains
Le message est simple : Contrer l’extrême droite suppose de faire la guerre à la pauvreté, et d’arrêter de faire la guerre aux pauvres.
Ma tribune dans @lemonde.fr : www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Press release ➡️: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Follow live/read the report: www.srpoverty.org/2025/10/01/f...
As I told @theguardian.com it’s not by accident that we are seeing the rise of the far right
Full report & link to presentation (9PM CET): www.srpoverty.org/2025/10/01/f...
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Today is International Day for the Eradication of Poverty & to mark this day we talked with Professor @deschuttero.bsky.social, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty & human rights.
Listen to our podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/2XBd...
Today #EndPovertyDay 17 Oct, I present the ‘Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth’ — an urgently-needed rethink in the fight against poverty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7htI...
My updated recommendations for the new @ec.europa.eu #EUAntiPovertyStrategy: www.srpoverty.org/2025/10/10/g...
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Event: „Toward ending child labour“ organisiert von @oefse.at & Dreikönigsaktion.
Jetzt reinhören! youtu.be/_812ULHUun8?...
#ChildLabour #SDG87 #Menschenrechte #DKA #ÖFSE #UN
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✏@patriciarblanco.bsky.social
elpais.com/planeta-futuro/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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www.laopiniondemurcia.es/comunidad/20... vía @laopiniondemurcia.es
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"La lucha contra la #pobreza en empleo, educación o protección social no tendrá éxito si no abordamos la aporofobia. Es clave incluirla en los debates". @eapnrm.bsky.social
That letter is now public: spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...
My piece in El Mundo @elmundo.es.web.brid.gy ahead of the Conferencia Más Allá del Crecimiento in Madrid next week @beyondgrowth-es.bsky.social #MásAlládelCrecimiento
www.elmundo.es/opinion/2025...
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www.ohchr.org/en/statement...
No company doing business in the #EU should profit from poverty wages, child labour or outsourcing to places with weak environmental rules
#March4Rights #HoldBizAccountable @foeeurope.bsky.social @eccjorg.bsky.social @etuc-ces.bsky.social
process related to health and disability benefits in the UK #UniversalCreditBill #UCBill #PIP
spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...
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👉 www.oefse.at/veranstaltun...
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🍫 Towards ending child labour - where do we stand? 🤔
❓ Study presentation & panel discussion
📆 16.09.2025 - 18.00
📌 C3 - Sensengasse 3
🗣️ UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty @deschuttero.bsky.social & Sister Regina Ignatia Aflah (HDR Accra)
ℹ️ www.oefse.at/veranstaltun...
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