A growing majority believe in fairer taxation and greater redistribution of income, also favouring public spending on disability benefits.
When one asks children experiencing poverty and homelessness, as the Children’s Rights Alliance for England did, it becomes obvious that the enjoyment of education, family life and adequate housing absolutely depend on each other.
The people of York chose education, housing, adequate standard of living, health and social care, and equality and non-discrimination as the five human rights issues the York Human Rights City Network should focus on.
Although people care deeply about economic and social rights, it is essential to widen the general knowledge about them. A study by Ipsos Mori shows that 65 to 80% of people in the UK do not know that rights to an adequate standard of living, to education, to health and to work are part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
