Voices against poverty

The areas covered include population, households and families health education work violence against women and poverty, power and decision making and human rights.

Specific initiatives in the fight against poverty

15. Underlines the important role that innovative sources of financing could play in the promotion of development, including the fight against hunger and poverty, and welcomes the ongoing work being undertaken in that regard, in particular in the context of the Action against Hunger and Poverty initiative

The United Nations and the fight against poverty

Employment the principal route out of poverty is work

Decent work is the most effective way out of poverty.

Consultative Work (Vietnam) poverty reduction program in northern mountainous areas.

Some contended that absolute poverty differs from relative poverty, or asked what responsibility individuals have to raise themselves out of poverty through education and work?

At the country level, ILO works for the inclusion of decent work in poverty reduction strategy papers and carries out decent work pilot programmes, aiming to show how decent work can reduce poverty in practice.

To incorporate aspects of decent work into poverty reduction strategy papers.

Moreover, migration has historically been the most effective measure against poverty.

India and Africa have a common fight against poverty and disease.

The combat against poverty must remain the cornerstone of our actions.

Urban poverty would have to be tackled if the fight against poverty envisaged in the Millennium Declaration was to succeed.

Hopes were high that he would deliver progress against the extraordinary poverty.

That is the reason behind the Action Against Hunger and Poverty alliance.

Violence against children in work situations.

For instance, the National Operational Center Against Poverty Problem has been established to act as the national focal point on poverty eradication.

Wolfensohn left a successful business career to lead the global campaign against poverty.

The MDGs have helped to play that role in the fight against poverty.

That is why we are participating in the initiative against hunger and poverty.

That we should work against each other.

Recalls the importance of the New York Declaration on Action against Hunger and Poverty and recommends the continuation of efforts aimed at identifying additional sources of financing for the fight against hunger and poverty

They also welcomed work on poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) and other policy frameworks.

18. Recalls the importance of the New York Declaration on Action against Hunger and Poverty, and recommends the continuation of efforts aimed at identifying additional sources of financing for the fight against hunger and poverty

14. Recalls the importance of the New York Declaration on Action against Hunger and Poverty, and recommends the continuation of efforts aimed at identifying additional sources of financing for the fight against hunger and poverty

Progress is being made the battle against poverty is slowly (too slowly) being won.

Yemen's revolution is a legitimate outcry against corruption, illiteracy, injustice, nepotism, poverty and tyranny.

Violence against girls, forced child marriage, endemic poverty, and many other topics were examined.

They adversely affect, in no insignificant way, our fight against poverty, hunger and disease.

The poverty reduction strategy papers outline an ambitious agenda for poverty reduction, particularly when viewed against the severe capacity constraints facing most low income countries.

That effort must go hand in hand with work to tackle inequality, poverty and injustice.

These flows are made possible mainly by tax havens, so the fight against global poverty should also be a fight against them.

In 2004 the Campaign and its partners in civil society helped to secure a major breakthrough with the launch of the Global Call to Action against Poverty, the largest campaign coalition against poverty assembled in recent years.

This shortcoming undermines the continent s longer term economic prospects, social stability, and fight against poverty.

Clean and renewable energy will be an indispensable component of the fight against poverty worldwide.

A poverty trap is therefore at work in Haiti, one that the country cannot overcome alone.

(h) Continuation of conceptual and analytical work on measuring the links between poverty and informal employment.

Poverty was the symptom of a global environment plagued by inequality, and the fight against poverty required a global alliance based on shared responsibility, cooperation and solidarity.

Of course, it is impossible to make serious inroads against poverty without generating persistent economic growth.

The struggle against global poverty will define our moral standing in the eyes of the future.

By the same token, the fight against poverty, hunger, illiteracy and inequality, indeed all efforts to reduce poverty and promote socio economic development, call for an active partnership.

In all hard work there is profit, but the talk of the lips leads only to poverty.

The most effective way for people to get out of poverty is through decent and productive work.