This year, due to the pandemic restrictions, the Irish 17 October Committee will be organising an online event through Zoom to mark the UN International End Poverty Day on Saturday, 17 October at 11am.
In so far as possible given the constraints, the Committee will endeavour to be true to the spirit of the annual event held at the Human Rights...
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We just formed a new committee recently due to the corona pandemic. We took time to review the concept note of October 17, the World Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty. Our first preparatory meeting took place early August. Since then we meet once a week. The campaign has already started and it will go on until one day before election day, 27th of...
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Theme — “Acting together to achieve social and environmental justice for all ”
The theme for the Day this year addresses the challenge of achieving social and environmental justice for all. The growing recognition of the multi-dimensionality of poverty means that these two issues are inseparably intertwined, and that social...
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I got to know Shamim when she worked as a cleaner at the girl’s hostel at the university where I work in Lahore, Pakistan. Shamim is a widow with 10 chidren. When the government imposed a lockdown in March to stop the spread of the coronavirus Shamim and her community of Lutheran Christians found themselves stuck at home with no work. While...
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Special 17 October 2020
United Nations theme for October 17, 2020 :
"Acting together to achieve social and environmental justice for all"
October 17 is the World Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty. It has been commemorated since 1987, the year when, at the call of Joseph Wresinski, thousands of people from all walks of life gathered...
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May 2019 - The consultation is now finished.
We have received 74 contributions from 34 countries, which have enriched the two proposals below. The contributions were presented to the United Nations...
