Report on the Observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
This report was submitted in response to General Assembly resolution 60/209, in which the Assembly welcomed the observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and requested the Secretary-General to undertake a review of the observance of the...
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The Permanent Forum came into existence at the end of the 1970s as a result of a period of isolation and lack of understanding experienced by the founder of ATD Fourth World, Father Joseph Wrésinski (1917-1988), and by families living in the shanty town of Noisy-le-Grand in the Paris suburbs. During this period, at the end of the 1950s, he decided...
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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...