Overall reduction of poverty calls for a multidimensional approach to Poverty Eradication.

Income and human development poverty can cause social exclusion just as social exclusion can cause income and human development poverty.

Governments should target assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable citizens.

Considering the limited availability of data in Bosnia and Herzegovina for determining absolute and relative poverty, we opted for the absolute poverty line as the most suitable instrument for poverty definition and monitoring.

Lastly, poverty should not be considered only in terms of its direct link with conflicts, but also in terms of its impact on other factors of conflict, such as enormous internal and international migratory pressures, which in turn lead to large scale population displacements these not only uproot populations but also increase poverty.

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At the same time, in too many countries poverty, even extreme poverty, is the fate of a major part of population.

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The Government of Canada has taken a comprehensive policy approach to addressing poverty, with a particular emphasis on child poverty.

On the other hand, 28 per cent of the unemployed are poor, but the unemployed represent one third of the total number of the poor.

Organized by UNIS in conjunction with the NGO ATD Fourth World, the event was a contribution to the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty and focused on the human rights dimensions of extreme poverty.

Indigenous communities in developed countries were sometimes referred to as living in fourth world conditions, since they experienced third world conditions while living in developed and comparatively wealthy nations.

The third area is youth and poverty.

Specially targeted are children under five from poor families and poor pregnant women.

Combating poverty requires action on many fronts.

Poverty is one of the major threats facing humanity.

In Tunisia, the programme to upgrade all poor settlements has covered 97 per cent of the housing stock in such settlements.

Difficulties in obtaining health protection face especially older people, who live in conditions of poverty and therefore have more limited access to health protection.

On the other hand, 95 per cent of the people lived in poverty.

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In that regard, the most pressing priority is to achieve sustainable development and address the challenges posed by poverty and inequality.

In the context of structural adjustment, it mitigates the negative effects of the adjustment process on the poor.

The Government was taking a broad range of initiatives to address poverty the objective was its total eradication.

(a) The effects of extreme poverty on the enjoyment and exercise of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of those affected by it

44. This picture seems in any case to point to a lessening of absolute poverty or to a smaller number of poor in the total population. However, the social indicators suggest that relative poverty has become more acute.

The problems of women and poverty could not be divorced from the wider economic environment or the problem of poverty eradication.

the poorest nations can grow out of poverty through trade

With regard to current poverty thresholds in our country, it is worth noting that earlier there was no official definition or quantification of poverty lines in Mexico.

In particular, the Committee is concerned that minimal attention has been paid to the issue of women living in poverty and that no sex disaggregated data are available on that topic.

The Committee also regrets the absence of an official poverty line that would enable the State party to define the extent of poverty and to monitor and evaluate progress in alleviating poverty.

(t) Highlighting the fact that the majority of persons with disabilities live in conditions of poverty, and in this regard recognizing the critical need to address the negative impact of poverty on persons with disabilities,

The increase was more pronounced among the non indigent poor than among the non poor (except in rural areas of the Pacific region, where it declined among the non indigent poor but increased among the non poor).

And I know, in the light of human suffering and poverty and even climate change, one would wonder, why worry about a few cats?

We therefore reiterate the call of the GCAP Wake up to poverty.

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Access and mobility are crucial for dealing with unemployment and poverty.

She explained how ATD Fourth World had organised a dialogue on the issues of poverty between people living in poverty and the academic community.

True, your parents were poor, and still are.

With the second type of poverty, voluntary poverty, people freely choose to live a life of poverty not of indigence but of a detachment from possessions.

First, poverty reduction policies must address the root causes of poverty and global policies should promote international and bilateral cooperation, including the transfer of technology and the sharing of experiences and good practices taking into account the gender and age dimensions of poverty.

365. The exacerbation of poverty has had a lasting effect on schools.

The Committee regrets the absence of disaggregated statistical data on the extent of poverty in the State party's report, particularly among refugees and the immigrant population, and notes that the State party has yet to adopt an official poverty line, which would enable the State party to define the extent of poverty and to monitor and evaluate progress in alleviating poverty.

50 percent of our residents live at or below the poverty line.