First, if there are no private property rights, people don’t have rights to own their assets, and even a rich man may become poor in a flash. In addition, people will probably lose working intensive without the rights, and it would lead to poverty.
Second, CEOs of company with racism may not employ blacks or the yellow race. Even though people are employed, racist may set a trap for them. Working with racist will have lots of trouble which probably make them lose their job. In that case, there’s poverty.
Third, some people is sold or used as slaves when human rights are violated. Slaves, as implied by the name, they must be poor. Moreover, even their lives are not protected. Without the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, people will be restricted in life. If you offend bigwigs, you will be jailed. People can kill anyone; as a result, plenty of families will lose their breadwinners and become poor.
In extreme cases, without all basic human rights at the same time, poverty would be very serious and lives are not even protected. For example, during the Second World War, scores of Jews were killed. Despite some Jews survived, their lives were miserable. Hence, I do agree that poverty is frequently a consequence of human rights abuses.
However, I don’t agree that poverty is a cause of human rights abuses. Indeed, poor people are always discriminated by rich people, such as being treated unequal under the law, the rich can speak more freely than the poor, the poor are often not respected, in contrast, the rich are often honorable. Yet, it’s not the reason of human rights abuses. It only implies when there’s poverty, human rights abuses will more likely to be there. The cause of human rights abuses is that people like to adapt different criteria on different people. People would always like to discriminate the poor. The cause should be that kind of mindset.
To conclude, without human rights, like freedom of thought and expression and equality in dignity, poverty may be there. However, though the human rights of poor people are likely abused by the others. It’s not the cause of human rights abuses. The reason should be the different criteria of people.
