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Legal Empowerment of the Poor: A Bridge to Social Integration
More than 4 billion people do not have access to even the most basic legal protections. This finding of the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor (2008) has wide ranging and serious implications for individuals and societies. It indicates that many citizens, especially women and children, who are often the most vulnerable and impoverished, are denied their most fundamental rights.
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"May the day be
not long delayed
when every human
being can find
in this organization
an effective
safeguard of his
personal rights;
those rights,
that is, which
derive directly
from his dignity
as a human person,
and which are
therefore universal,
inviolable and
inalienable."
Pacem in Terris
Blessed John XXIII
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