Poverty & human rights from below
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An alternative history and approach
Camilo Perez-Bustillo
CROP Fellow/Research Professor, Autonomous University of Mexico City
Camilo Pérez-Bustillo has written extensively on human rights, rights of indigenous peoples, and migrants, refugees, and the displaced in the context of poverty and inequality. He is co-editor of The Poverty of Rights: Human Rights and the Eradication of Poverty published by Zed books in the “CROP International Studies in Poverty Research” and has been engaged with CROP´s work on human rights and poverty since 1997.
Pérez-Bustillo was co-founder and co-director of the human rights NGO Multicultural Education, Training and Advocacy (META), Inc. He was the W. Haywood Burns Memorial Chair for Civil Rights Law at the City University of New York (CUNY) Law School in 2002-2003, and later served as Director of Immigrant and Refugee Rights at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Philadelphia.
He is a member of the Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the International Law Association, of the organizing committees of the World Social Forum on Migration and of the Global Alternative Forum of Peoples in Movement and its International Tribunal of Conscience (the first of its kind focused on issues affecting migrants, refugees, and the displaced). Pérez-Bustillo has been an advisor on issues regarding human rights and poverty to the UN Human Rights Council.
A CROP/UiB Global lecture
A CROP/UiB Global lecture
