International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Today is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

We know that every single day some 25,000 children die from preventable causes.
This is tolerated by the world’s leaders! Unless we protest we are condoning the intolerable!

U2 lead singer, Bono: "It is extraordinary to me that you can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion to save 25,000 children who die every day of preventable treatable disease and hunger. That's mad, that is mad."

During the last 4 weeks the world’s rich nations have spent $ trillions to save corrupt banking systems – just like that!
In that time 700,000 children have died of preventable treatable disease and hunger!
Isn’t such neglect evil?

In Victoria Square, Adelaide, South Australians, including a considerable number of students from Catholic colleges, were Standing Up in support of the ‘Eradication of Poverty’ in the world.

We are standing now with millions around the world on this symbolic day, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to show our commitment to the fight against extreme poverty and inequality.
We are standing because we refuse to accept more excuses in a world where 50,000 people die every day as a result of extreme poverty and the gap between rich and poor is getting wider.

We are standing because we want our leaders to honour their promises to meet the Millennium Development Goals – and we ask them to exceed these goals.

We join in solidarity with people from hundreds of countries to say: To the leaders of the wealthy countries – We urge you to keep your promises on poverty – debt cancellation, more and better aid, trade justice and gender equality.

To the leaders of poorer countries – make it your first responsibility to save the lives of your poorest citizens.
We ask you to tackle inequality, to be accountable to your people, to govern fairly and justly, to fight corruption and to fulfill human rights.

Today, and every day, we will STAND UP and SPEAK OUT against poverty.
We will continue the fight against poverty and inequality and to hold our leaders to their promises.
We are asking not for charity but for justice. We are millions of voices standing in solidarity to say, no more excuses - end poverty now.

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