The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is being observed today (October 17) to promote people’s awareness about the need to eradicate poverty and destitution worldwide, particularly in the developing and underdeveloped countries
The day is observed every year since 1993, when the UN General Assembly through Resolution 47/196 designated October 17 for the purpose, as the need of poverty eradication has become the top development priority. At the Millennium Summit, the world leaders committed themselves to cutting by half the number of people living in extreme poverty – people whose income is less than one dollar a day- by the year 2015.
The theme for this year’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – “Working together out of poverty” – highlights the need for a truly global anti-poverty alliance, one in which both developed and developing countries participate actively.
