'It's unfair': UN envoy meets children living in poverty in Scotland

Philip Alston is on a tour of the UK and will report his findings into the causes and effects of poverty next week

The United Nations rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights squeezed onto a school bench alongside a dozen children in one of Glasgow’s most deprived neighbourhoods and posed a question: “Who should help poor people?”

“The rich people,” Soroush, one of the children, shot back. “It’s unfair to have people earning billions of pounds and have other people living on benefits.”

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2ROaF0b