The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is celebrated on October 17th .

The date was officially commemorated for the first time in 1992, with the aim of alerting the population to the need to defend a basic human right.

Earlier, on October 17, 1987, Joseph Wresinski, the founder of the ATD Fourth World International Movement, invited people to gather in honor of victims of hunger and poverty in Paris, where the Universal Declaration of Rights had been signed. Humans. One hundred thousand people responded to his appeal.

The eradication of poverty and hunger is one of the eight millennium development goals, defined in the year 2000 by 193 member countries of the United Nations and by several international organizations.

On this day the poor are given a voice and efforts are joined to end poverty. The 2016 theme is "Turning from humiliation and exclusion to participation: ending povert…