The Special Rapporteur invited all interested parties in the United States, including, but not limited to, NGOs, activists, academics and other individuals and organisations working on issues related to poverty and human rights, to provide input for the preparation of his visit to the United States in December 2017.

He asked respondents to provide input on the following thematic issues:

1. The definition of poverty and extreme poverty that your organisation employs in the context of the United States and to what extent do official definitions at the federal and state level adequately encompass poverty in all its dimensions.
2. The most severe human rights violations that people living in poverty and extreme poverty in the United States experience.
3. How poverty and extreme poverty in the United States intersect with civil and political rights.
4. How poverty and extreme poverty in the United States intersect with economic and social rights (such as the right to education or the right to work).
5. In 2015 the Special Rapporteur presented a report to the UN Human Rights Council on economic inequality and human rights, which can be found here. Please point to interlinkages between poverty, inequality and human rights in the United States.
6. There is an increasing debate worldwide on the impact of new technologies on societies, including in the area of Artificial Intelligence, robotics, Big Data and algorithmic decision-making. How do these developments affect the human rights of those living in poverty in the United States? The Special Rapporteur is interested in learning how these technologies may affect civil and political rights as well as economic and social rights.

The inputs received are listed below:

• Access Now
• AI Now Institute (comments for the Special Rapporteur and the 2017 report)
• Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise and Human Rights Institute of Columbia Law School, and the Program on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• ATD Fourth World
• Boston Human Rights City Initiative
• Center for Economic and Social Rights
• Center for Reproductive Rights
• Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at the UC Berkeley School of Law, the SIA Legal Team, and the Human Rights and Gender Justice Clinic at the CUNY School of Law
• Child Labor Coalition
• Color of Water and the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern School of Law
• Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment
• Community Legal Services and the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern University School of Law
• Dylan O’Donoghue, Drexel University
• Elder Law and Disability Rights Centerand UC Irvine School of Law
• Elizabeth Bertolino, Drexel University
• First Focus
• Georgetown Center for Poverty
• Human Rights Clinic of the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico School of Law, the Caribbean Institute for Human Rights and Latino Justice (PRLDEF), and Amnesty International Puerto Rico
• International Corporate Accountability Roundtable
• Juvenile Law Center
• Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
• Maryland Legal Aid Bureau and the Program on Human Rights and Global Economy, Northeastern University School of Law
• Matt Mecoli, Drexel University
• Miami Workers Center, Advocacy Partners Team and Community Justice Project
• National Advocate for Pregnant Women
• National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel and the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern University School of Law
• National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
• New Mexico Legal Aid and the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern University School of Law
• Newark Think Tank on Poverty
• Nina Gurak, Drexel University
• NY Legal Assistance Group
• Princeton University & Center for Information Technology Policy
• Ronald Bradey Bowen, Drexel University
• Shriver Center on Poverty Law
• Steven Tambon, Drexel University
• Terry Skolnik
• The Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law School and Human Rights Watch
• University of Miami School of Law
• The Women’s Fund of Miami-Dade County
• The Coalition of Immokalee Workers
• The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
• Catholic Charities Legal Services
• Catalyst Miami
• Legal Services of Greater Miami and Community Justice Project
• Women Enabled International