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UN PhotoEnding Social and Institutional Maltreatment | Acting together for just, peaceful and inclusive societies - UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2024
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People living in poverty face negative attitudes. They are stigmatised, discriminated against, judged for example by their appearance, accent, address (or lack of it), blamed for their situation, and treated with disrespect. The maltreatment is more pronounced for people who face other forms of prejudice as well, including gender, sexual orientation, race, or ethnicity.
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SDG 16 aims to achieve peaceful and inclusive societies, providing access to justice for all and
building effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels. People everywhere
should be free of fear from all forms of violence including the sustained violence of poverty.
Freedom from the violence of poverty will be achieved only if discussions and actions around
poverty eradication are no longer carried out without the people the most directly impacted.
Taking firm steps towards just, peaceful, and inclusive societies include:
1/ putting in place conditions for people with lived experience of poverty to share their
knowledge and for that knowledge to be recognised and valued;
2/ supporting actions to enable the people living in poverty to regain confidence and agency to act and
3/ recognising the contributions that people experiencing poverty bring to society and their
invaluable experiential knowledge of policy and practices related to poverty.
To correct the collective failure of poverty, we call on everyone to take these firm steps and act together to promote effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions that will appropriately, effectively, and respectfully respond to the needs of the people left furthest behind.