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Neil Cowan

Policy and Parliamentary Officer at Poverty Alliance

UN Special Rapporteur report on UK poverty is an accurate reflection

Neil Cowan

10 June 2019

Posted in

Policy

The UK Government’s response to the final report by Professor Philip Alston - the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights – following his visit to the UK last year has been an all too predictable one. Rejecting the report as “barely believable” and “completely... Read more

Choices are key in tackling poverty

Neil Cowan

9 January 2019

Posted in

Policy

The recent visit to Scotland of Professor Philip Alston, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, shone a light on what organisations working on poverty-related issues already know to be true; that the increasing levels of poverty that we have... Read more