Diana Tietjens Meyers is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She has held the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Social Ethics at Loyola University, Chicago and the Laurie Chair in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She works in three main areas of philosophy - philosophy of action, feminist ethics, and human rights theory. She is currently writing a monograph, Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights.

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"Human rights practitioners have been stressing the importance of community participation and stakeholder engagement for some time, so it is helpful to see... what a philosophical argument for incorporating these considerations would look like." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"This volume, a collection of 13 new essays edited by Meyers (emer., Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs), is an in-depth, comprehensive exploration of various aspects of poverty, agency, and human rights... A handy volume on contemporary global poverty, this collection of philosophical papers is recommended for students, educators, and practitioners from the social sciences and humanities concerned with the issues of poverty, globalization, development studies, and international human rights." --Choice

"The volume Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights is an important contribution to the fields of global ethics and justice." -- Ethics

"I strongly recommend this collection to anyone interested in present philosophical debates on global poverty and human rights." -- Australasian Journal of Philosophy

"Meyers's collection is an important contribution to the philosophical discussions surrounding moral responsibility for global injustice, global poverty, and moral agency more generally. Meyers's book and the essays contained in it provide a crucial starting point for more discussions to come, which will hopefully lead to more developed and nuanced ways of understanding the complex links between poverty and agency. Only when we fully understand these links between human action and the moral wrongs of poverty will we be in a position to effectively motivate and enact the changes necessary to finally eradicate avoidable, human-caused poverty on a global scale. This project is a profound step in that direction." -- Hypatia Reviews Online