Wednesday 17 October 2012

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty



The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is observed on 17 October. Twenty five years ago, on this day, over a hundred thousand people gathered at the Trocadero in Paris , where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948, to honour the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger. They proclaimed that poverty is a violation of human rights.
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