24 Facts About Philip Alston

Philip Geoffrey Alston is an Australian international law scholar and human rights practitioner.

Philip Alston is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, and co-chair of the law school's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.

Philip Alston graduated from the University of Melbourne with an LL.

Philip Alston's brother is the former Australian federal Cabinet minister and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Richard Alston.

Philip Alston was then professor at the Australian National University, and director of its Center for International and Public Law.

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Philip Alston was then professor at the European University Institute, before moving to New York University School of Law, where he is the John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and co-chair of the law school's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.

Philip Alston became a faculty instructor in the NYU Law Institute for Executive Education, which was launched in 2015.

In human rights law, Philip Alston has held a range of senior UN appointments for over two decades.

Philip Alston was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General in 1988 to suggest reforms to make the United Nations human rights treaty monitoring system more effective.

Philip Alston's other United Nations appointments include Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals.

Philip Alston was appointed to that post by Sergio Vieira de Mello, and has continued to advise successor High Commissioners, including Louise Arbour and Navanethem Pillay.

Philip Alston has been involved in the field of children's rights and the legal adviser to UNICEF throughout the period of the drafting of the U N Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Philip Alston participated in the UNICEF delegation to the drafting sessions of the convention and continued to advise UNICEF for several years after the convention's adoption in 1989, especially in relation to promoting the ratification of the convention by countries around the world.

Philip Alston published two studies for UNICEF on children's rights.

In 2014, Philip Alston was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

In May 2015, Philip Alston submitted his first report to the Human Rights Council in his capacity as Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

In December 2017, Philip Alston reported that in "a community in Butler County, Alabama he found raw sewage flowing "from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.

Philip Alston said the UK government caused "great misery" with "punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous" austerity measures, and roughly 14 million people, one in five of the UK population, experience poverty and 1.

Philip Alston said, "It is patently unjust and contrary to British values that so many people are living in poverty, " and added that compassion had been given up during nearly a decade of austerity so severe that key parts of the postwar social contract, William Beveridge worked out over 70 years ago, had been lost.

Philip Alston directed a project funded by the European Commission, which resulted in the publication of a Human Rights Agenda for the European Union for the Year 2000 and a 1999 volume of essays.

Philip Alston is one of 29 signatories to the Yogyakarta Principles.

Philip Alston was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to the law, particularly in the area of international human rights, and to legal education" in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours.

Philip Alston has written on issues such as economic, social and cultural rights, United Nations institutions and procedures, labour rights, the role of non-state actors in relation to human rights, comparative bills of rights, the use of force, and human rights and development policies.

Philip Alston is one of the authors of a textbook in the field entitled International Human Rights in Context, Law, Politics, Morals, published by Oxford University Press.