17 October 2025 National Booklet

Click below for the 2025 17 October national booklet. The booklet includes details of 17 October events around Ireland, international testimonies of poverty and injustice from Palestine and the Republic of Congo,the President’s message and the 2025 theme and concept note. It also includes details of the Dublin event at the Human Rights and Poverty Stone and some history on… Read more →

Irish theme and concept note for UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2025: 17th October 25th Anniversary

Commemorating 25 years of 17th October in Ireland Working Together with a Radical Hope and Decisive Action to End Poverty and Leave No One Behind.   2025 marks 25 years of Commemorating the UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty in Ireland.  This began with a small group of people meeting by the Famine Statues at Custom House Quay in Dublin. … Read more →

Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges, 17th of October international day for the eradication of poverty 2024.

Inspired by the international theme– “Ending Social and Institutional Maltreatment: Acting together for just, peaceful and inclusive societies”—the Irish theme for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 2024, focuses on breaking barriers and building bridges. At the core of this idea, there is a double movement which suggests that where and when barriers are broken, more needs to… Read more →

Bridges and Barriers

Together towards Equality The city of Dublin owes its existence to the River Liffey and its very name is based on the first river crossing at Stoneybatter: Atha Cliath. Each of the bridges close to the Poverty and Human Rights Stone tells its own story of struggle to dismantle barriers and of attempts to gain dignity. O’Connell Bridge reminds us… Read more →

Irish theme and concept note for UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2024

Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges: Together Towards Equality and Inclusion The Irish theme is an adaptation of the international theme; “Ending Social and Institutional Maltreatment” Acting together for just, peaceful and inclusive societies.  This theme recognises the continuing systemic and societal discrimination which persists.  This discrimination leads to a lack of equal opportunities and oftentimes a denial of basic rights.… Read more →