The COVID-19 pandemic that gripped the world during the past year has resulted in over 3.7 million deaths and is reversing decades of progress in the fight against poverty and extreme poverty. According to the World Bank report on “Projected poverty impacts of COVID-19, ''between 71 to 100 million people are being pushed into poverty...
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Gideon Adeyeni, himself from a poor background, is now a researcher in his country, Nigeria. He is very active in various social and environmental justice movements, including ATD Fourth World, through the Forum on Overcoming Extreme Poverty, and Africans Rising, a collective of associations, social movements and individuals committed to peace,...
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Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent Poverty, Respecting all People and our Planet
This year's theme followed on and deepened the different ideas and reflections raised last year on social and environmental justice. People who experience poverty were able to express very strongly that there is only one justice, and that it is both...
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World Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty 2021 :
Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent Poverty, Respecting all People and our Planet
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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 at the Plaza of Liberties and Human Rights in Paris, to affirm that:
“Wherever men and women are condemned to live in extreme poverty, human...
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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...
