Editing Extreme poverty (section)

===Previous definitions===

In July 1993, [[Leandro Despouy]], the then UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights made use of a definition he adapted from a 1987 report to the French Economic and Social Council<ref>Joseph Wresinski. [https://www.lecese.fr/sites/default/files/pdf/Rapports/1987/Rapport-WRESINSKI.pdf#page=8 "Grande pauvreté et precarité économique et sociale"], 10–11 February 1987.</ref> by Fr. [[Joseph Wresinski]], founder of the [[International Movement ATD Fourth World]], distinguishing "lack of basic security" (poverty) and "chronic poverty" (extreme poverty), linking the eradication of extreme poverty by allowing people currently experiencing it a real opportunity to exercise all their human rights:

{{quote|The lack of basic security connotes the absence of one or more factors enabling individuals and families to assume basic responsibilities and to enjoy fundamental rights. The situation may become widespread and result in more serious and permanent consequences. The lack of basic security leads to chronic poverty when it simultaneously affects several aspects of people's lives, when it is prolonged and when it severely compromises people's chances of regaining their rights and of reassuming their responsibilities in the foreseeable future.<ref>Leandro Despouy. [https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/170999/files/E_CN-4_Sub-2_1993_16-FR.pdf "Preliminary report on human rights and extreme poverty"], 2 July 1993.</ref>}}

This definition was mentioned previously, in June 1989, in the preliminary report on the realization of economic, social and cultural rights by the UN Special Rapporteur [[Danilo Türk]].<ref>Danilo Türk. [https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/64870/files/E_CN.4_Sub.2_1989_19-EN.pdf "Preliminary report on the new international economic order and the promotion of human rights"], 28 June 1989.</ref> It is still in use today, among others, in the current UN Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights<ref>[[María Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona|Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona]] [https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/732765/files/A_HRC_21_39-EN.pdf "Final draft of the guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights"], 18 July 2012.</ref> adopted by the UN [[United Nations Human Rights Council|Human Rights Council]] in September 2012.<ref>UN Human Rights Council. [https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/737029/files/A_HRC_RES_21_11-EN.pdf Resolution 21/11] dated 27 September 2012.</ref>