World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty in Dublin
This year, on the occasion of the World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty in Dublin, many testimonies of people living in poverty were heard.
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Worl Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty poster 2022
Poster October 17 2022 Here is the poster for 2022. Download it here.
History of October 17
From 1987, the date of the first gathering, to the present day… On October 17, 1987, in reply to Father Joseph Wresinski‘s appeal, 100,000 defenders of human rights gathered together on the Trocadero Plaza in Paris to honour victims of hunger, violence, and ignorance, to express their refusal of extreme poverty, and to call on … Read more
The Commemorative Stone and Its Replicas: A World Heritage of Humanity
The history and significance of the Commemorative Stone in memory of the victims of poverty, placed on 17th October 1987 in Paris, and its replicas around the world.