Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, visited ANU in June 2019 to deliver the inaugural address for the opening of the Poverty and Inequality Research Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy.

In this Policy Forum Pod, Professor Sharon Bessell and Martyn Pearce from the ANU talk to Professor Philip Alston about whether the human rights community is doing enough to tackle climate change, his controversial report into poverty in the UK, and how it feels to have world leaders and the media criticise you and your work.