Olivier De Schutter is the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. An academic specialized in economic and social rights, he was the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food from 2008 to 2014, and a member of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights from 2015 to 2020.
This amount, estimated as the amount needed to set up basic social protection schemes in the world’s lowest-income countries, is affordable for the international community.
