Global poverty in figures and graphs
October 17 is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This commemorative date was established by the United Nations in 1992, in time for its actions in the Trocadero Square in Paris, when about 100,000 people gathered there on October 17, 1987 and said that poverty is a violation of human rights. Over the decades that followed, the world made significant strides in eliminating extreme poverty, but progress has slowed in recent years and poverty may rise again in the not-too-distant future. More about this - in the graphs of "Vedomosti".
October 17 is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This commemorative date was established by the United Nations in 1992, in time for its actions in the Trocadero Square in Paris, when about 100,000 people gathered there on October 17, 1987 and said that poverty is a violation of human rights. Over the decades that followed, the world made significant strides in eliminating extreme poverty, but progress has slowed in recent years and poverty may rise again in the not-too-distant future. More about this - in the graphs of "Vedomosti".
