Background material: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

New China net Beijing, October 16 – (by Wang Xuemei) October 17 was the United Nations definite 17th International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. United Nations this year’s activity subject will decide as child and family anti-poor call, is for the purpose of appealing that the people pay attention to the disadvantaged children and their family, takes seriously to safeguard disadvantaged children’s rights.

On December 22, 1992, the 47th UN General Assembly decided definitely every year on October 17 decides as international eliminates the poor sleepy date, is for the purpose of causing the international news service to poor to ask sleepily topic regarded again, mobilizes various countries to pick to take a body to hold the poor motion. Impels the whole world to eliminate the poor sleepy labor for further step Xuan Chuanhe to do, in March, 1995, United Nations decided as 1996 international eliminates poor sleepy year. In the same year in December, UN General Assembly decided as first international to eliminate from 1997 to 2006 poor sleepy ten years. In December, 2008, UN General Assembly determined once more from 2008 to 2017 is second international eliminates poor sleepy ten years.

The poverty issue is one of most stern questions the current world faces. United Nations millennium development targets propose must before 2015 global stricken people reduction half. For many years, the whole world has eliminated the impoverished work to make very big progress. But, the current impact of global financial crisis, poverty-reduction work faced with huge challenge. Research of the World Bank indicated that is affected the crisis, the United Nations millennium development targets are hard according to the plan to realize. The food and agriculture organization of the UN in June made the report to demonstrate, world hungry population already from last year 915 million rise to this year 1.02 billion. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in the speech that according to the newest appraisal, since the beginning of this year, in the global scale had at least 50 million job opportunities because of the financial crisis disappearance, some 100 million people will return below the low-income level. He said: Is facing multiple crisis’s today, we must pay attention especially are most impoverished and most weak trend community. In any decline, first comes under the attack, and is injured deeply is the poor person.

In view of the fact that this year is “Child Power Advantage Joint pledge” has passed 20 weeks year, this year international eliminates the poor sleepy date main topic Italy to leave “Child Power Advantage Joint pledge” protects child Quan Yifang the surface doing to use suddenly in Uygur, to shout implores the international news service to regard Bulgaria to bond child’s right to subsistence, the comprehensive right to development and to be protected Bulgaria again the power by and participation right power, leans listens to child’s shouting sound. Various sides should with poor sleepy child and he family same place, help him to defeat poor poor. Ban Ki-moon article said that throws the capital and Bulgaria to protect child Quan Yi for the child is eliminates poor sleepy for one of ways may depend.

(This article originates: New China net)