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Sacred Economics?

The 99% grapple daily with the effects of an increasingly unequal world brought on by a social order that is driven by money and its acquisition.  Indeed, as the global economy keeps growing from year...

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Labour Day Blues

What will it take to restore Labor Day to its roots? A lot more than you think. We now live in a time when trade union membership is declining, trade and labor unions are being systematically...

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Message from the International Committee for October 17

This is the message of the International Committee for October 17 on the occasion of the Commemoration of the World Day for Overcoming Poverty & United Nations International Day for the Eradication...

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Demise of the middle class in the US?

The burgeoning gulf between rich and poor persons in the United States now means that if you are not at the top, you are at the bottom. The global labor market is changing radically thanks to growth at...

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Poverty inextricably linked to discrimination and racism

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism Mutuma Ruteere [1] emphasized in his report to the General Assembly that racial or ethnic minorities are disproportionately...

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Uruguay’s president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills

In the week that Uruguay legalises cannabis, the 78-year-old explains why he rejects the 'world's poorest president' label How does your leader compare to José Mujica? Have your say

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Development data: how accurate are the figures?

The numbers we use in development, and most of what we think of as facts, are actually estimates. It's time for a data revolution

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Leave No One Behind: Think, Decide and Act Together Against Extreme Poverty

The International Committee for October 17 welcomes and appreciates the theme chosen by the United Nations, in consultation with activists, civil society and non-governmental organizations, for the...

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October 17 – World Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty & International Day for...

#‎October17‬ Posters — Free to use, share and distribute ‪Some of my designs for the 2014 commemoration of the World Day for Overcoming Extreme Poverty – also recognized as the United Nations...

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2014 Message of the International Committee for October 17

People living in poverty know from experience that it is only when we work together that we are able to transform our lives and communities in order to build a more sustainable and equitable world for...

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What can $10 do?

The Life You can Save initiative decided to take their cameras to Cape Town, South Africa to show what $10 means to people in poverty. $10 probably doesn’t mean that much to most of us living in one of...

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Voice of reason

The United Nations is gearing up to launch its post 2015 agenda this year. The agenda is to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); a list of goals that address the most urgent issues of our...

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New United Nations development agenda

The “zero” draft of the outcome document for the UN Summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda, titled ‘Transforming our world by 2030: A new agenda for global action,’ was circulated to UN...

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Final text of the Sustainable Development Goals

This is the preamble to the document the United Nations General Assembly will adopt in late September which will launch the Sustainable Development Goals as the framework for the United Nations...

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UN adopts SDGs

On 25th September 2015, the 193-Member United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of bold new Global Goals. The new framework,...

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Message of the International Committee for October 17

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What does it mean to you?

Today is October 17. What does it mean to most of us? Probably it will be a day not much different from yesterday. But, for poor people gathering today at October 17 events around the world it is THE...

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Oklahoma budget cuts target poor and education

In an effort to cover an estimated $1.3 billion State budget deficit, Oklahoma lawmakers approved budget cuts that hit the State’s poor and vulnerable population! Despite pleas from more than 140...

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October 17th Commemoration 2016

Background of the Day The observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty can be traced back to 17 October 1987. On that day, over a hundred thousand people gathered at the Trocadéro...

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Message of the International Committee for October 17

This is the message of the International Committee for October 17 to mark the commemoration of the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and the World Day for Overcoming...

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