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 →

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 →

  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 →

Concept Note prepared by the International Committee for October 17 and agreed with UNDESA The views in this document do not necessarily represent those of the United Nations or its Member States. This year marks the 25 th anniversary of the declaration by the General Assembly, in its resolution 47/196 of 22 December 1992, of 17 October as the International… Read more →

A new resolution on the UN End Poverty Day has been adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the 21 December 2016 in the frame of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008 – 2017).     This “United Nations A/RES/71/241 General Assembly” resolution “invites all States, organizations of the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations… Read more →

  “Whether he sings his love, pain, dreams or memory, the Human, between the lines, first sings for his thirst for dignity…  Whether in the Guatemala’s aldéas, as in Haïti’s dulls, or in African, Asian and European slums, everywhere I could hear families living in extreme poverty, singing for their dignity” Joseph Wresinski, 1987 To celebrate the dignity of people… Read more →

The SAOL sisters sing and rap about the lack of attention tot he voice of the poor as well as the strange motto that adorns the dublin City crest. They start their song by quoting the 17 October 1987 End Poverty call by Wresinski! Don’t miss this piece of art! The whole Irish 17 October Committee is grateful to the… Read more →

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On 12th February 2017, on the centenary of the birth of Joseph Wresinski, the inititator of the UN End Poverty Day, the International 17 October Committee and ATD International launched “Stop Poverty“, a global call to action! Support the call at www.poverty-stop.org Watch the video introducing the campaign!   Read more →

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