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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