Ahead of next UN End Poverty Day, you can add your name to the list of people who want to continue promoting the 17 October 1987 Human Rights Call to Unite and Stop Poverty! Among the Irish signatories of this call are: Father Peter McVerry, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead McGuire, Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, Anastasia Crickley, Fintan Farrell, Hugh Frazer… Read more →
Author: Irish End Poverty Day Committee
Join the “End Poverty 24 Hours” Calling on the World to Leave No One Behind!
To mark the UN End Poverty Day in Dublin, you can join the “Stand Up, Speak Out, Sing Loud” series of event startind the 16 October at 7pm and finishing the 17 October with an event from 7pm to 9pm! Read more →
Volunteers are needed to help in Dublin on next UN #EndPoverty Day, Tuesday 17 October 2017!
The Irish 17 October Committee and ATD as one of its members are looking for volunteers to support the preparation of the next UN Day for Eradication of Poverty Gathering on Custom House Quay in Dublin (Tuesday 17 October 2017 at 11am). You want to support the events marking the next UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Tuesday 17… Read more →
Download the poster announcing the 2017 UN day!
A3 PDF to donwload here! Read more →
17 Global Goals Boats on the river Liffey!
To mark the 30th Anniversary of the UN End Poverty Day and to contribute for the civil society mobilisation for the UN 2030 Agenda, the INTO Global Citizenship Schools Network and the Irish 17 October Committee invite schools and other groups of children, young people and adults around the Country to create boats of hope to be launched on the… Read more →
Let’s discuss the Agenda 2030 “Leave No One Behind” Promise!
A few days after UN End Poverty Day 2017, the Irish Dominican Justice Office in Dublin invites you to discuss the “Leave No One behind” United Nations promise. Contact: Marie Download Invitation Download Resource Centre Map and Directions Read more →
The UN #EndPoverty Day discussed during a HLPF 2017 side event
Last Minute Update! Read here the full Storify account of the debates on #EndPoverty Day at the UN ============= Can a UN Day create change? This question will be discussed on 12th July 2017 in New York at the United Nations during HLPF 2017. What is HLPF? It’s the annual monitoring gathering of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.… Read more →
Submit an application for a UN Day grant! Deadline: 28 July 2017 by noon!
The Event – Public Awareness Funding Initiative from the Irish Department of Social Protection Deadline for applications: 12.00 noon, Friday 28th July 2017. Please find explanatory brochure here and application form here Since 1992, 17th October has been recognised by the United Nations as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The Irish Department of Social Protection has a… Read more →
A tribute to Simone Veil, the woman who first read the 17 October 1987 Call to Action!
Simone Veil and Joseph Wresinski 17 October 1987 The Irish 17 October Committee created a small video (first of 3 videos below) to pay tribute to women’s rights champion, politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, who died on 30th June 2017 aged 89. Simone Veil was also the woman who read publicly for the first time and in front of… Read more →
A Message of Peace – ‘Playing for Change’ prepares a video for next UN End Poverty Day!
In Ouagadougou at the end of June, four young musicians, members of ATD who had grown up on the streets of the city, worked to translate a song by the American musician Ben Harper into French. I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands… For Ahmed, Alassane, Ousseini… Read more →