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Emerging Human Rights Norms and Standards on Vertical Inequalities

Everyday there is more news about alarming disparities in income and wealth from around the world. One day we learn that the CEO of Disney earned 1,424 times what the median worker in that company earned (Stanley-Becker 2019). The next it is the impact of COVID-19 on billionaires self-quarantining on their private yachts versus workers carrying out essential services without paid sick leave and often for less than a living wage (Collins 2020). The portrait of glaring inequality and injustice described in the daily news is profoundly disturbing. It is also a stark contrast to the vision of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a commitment of all UN members to respect and promote all human rights – civil, political, …

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