International Day for the Eradication of Poverty : 17 October
The United Nations system has made poverty eradication a priority target for international action, designating on its behalf a Day, a Year (1996) and a decade (1997-2006), and making it the first of eight Millennium Development Goals which all 191 Member States have pledged to meet by the year 2015. The goal is to halve the number of people living in poverty by 2015 which persists, even worsens, in parts of the developing world, and increases in regions where it had long been in decline, such as in the industrialized economies of the West and in Eastern Europe. Taking inspiration from Japanese calligraphy, UNESCO’s Mika Shino designed this poster.
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