The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals are a global commitment to “transforming our world” and eradicating poverty in all its forms everywhere. The challenge now is to put this vision into action. How can this be achieved? During an End Poverty Day event at the UN in Geneva, panellists will provide some answers to this… Read more →

The annual meeting of the Human Rights and Poverty MEP Intergroup to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty will take place on Wednesday 19th October at 15h30 in room PHS 5B001 in the European Parliament. The theme of the meeting will be: “Moving from humiliation and exclusion to participation: Ending poverty in all its forms”. Commissioner Marianne… Read more →

Discover inspiring, funny and to the point pictures ahead next UN End Poverty Day! Follow us in Instagram!     Read more →

This year the Irish 17 October Committee produced an Activity Kit including information about the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty as well as an invitation for children to carry out an activity ahead of the next UN Day. Help us to promote this Activity Kit among teachers and youth workers, and why not, your own children and… Read more →

This year again the Irish 17 October Committee managed to find sponsors to print a T-Shirt for the 2016 UN day. We couldn’t secure funding for the total costs of the printing but we with a participation to the cost of €2 + postage cost we can send you one T-shirt for the day. The T-Shirt message refers to the… Read more →

Make sure you are in the picture! If you are marking the 2016 UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty in Ireland or somewhere else in the world, don’t miss the opportunity to register it in a global data base! Make noise beyond your own area and be connected to the world! Visit the global data base! Read more →

Here is an extract of the concept note prepared by the International 17 October Committee for #EndPoverty Day 2016 : “The worst thing about living in extreme poverty is the contempt, that they treat you like you are worthless, that they look at you with disgust and fear and that they even treat you like an enemy. We and our… Read more →

You can download the poster in pdf format (in low and high resolution) lam94-fr_LD_poster.pdf – 1,6 Mo lam94-fr_HD_poster.pdf – 9,7 Mo lam94-en_ld_poster.pdf lam94-en_hd_poster.pdf Read more →

In 2017, we will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of Joseph Wresinski‘s call to action launched on 17 October 1987 and we’ve already started preparing for an extraordinary campaign which we would like to invite you to join in. Since 17 October was recognized as International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, by the United Nations in 1992, considerable progress… Read more →

The international theme for the 17 October 2016, the 30th UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, chosen by the United Nations with the International Committee for October 17 is: Moving from humiliation and exclusion to participation: Ending poverty in all its forms Read more →