The International Committee for October 17th was launched on October 17th, 2008.The goals of the International Committee for October 17th are: To promote the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which publicly unites all those who are striving together to end poverty and those who want to join them, whether at global, national or […]| Forum du Refus de la Misère
From 1987, the date of the first gathering, to the present day… On October 17, 1987, in reply to Father Joseph Wresinski‘s appeal, 100,000 defenders of human rights gathered together on the Trocadero Plaza in Paris to honour victims of hunger, violence, and ignorance, to express their refusal of extreme poverty, and to call on […]| Forum du Refus de la Misère