ON DAY FOR ERADICATION OF POVERTY, UN URGES HEEDING CALL OF MARGINALIZED, ENDING DISCRIMINATION

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ON DAY FOR ERADICATION OF POVERTY, UN URGES HEEDING CALL OF
MARGINALIZED, ENDING DISCRIMINATIONNew York, Oct 17 2013 10:00AMUrging
greater support for people struggling to escape poverty and build
better lives, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations
marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty by calling
on the world to "listen to the voices that often go unheard."

"If we are to realize the future we want for all, we must hear and
heed the calls of the marginalized," Mr. Ban said in his <"
http://www.un.org/en/events/povertyday/2013/sgmessage2013.shtml">message
for the International Day, which has been observed at UN Headquarters
since 1993 and around the world since 1987. This year's commemoration
recognizes people living in poverty as critical partners for tackling
the world's development challenges.

The theme for 2013 is "Working together towards a world without
discrimination: Building on the experience and knowledge of people in
extreme poverty."

Mr. Ban notes that the Day comes as the international community is
pursuing twin objectives: intensifying efforts to reach the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), and formulating the next set of goals to
guide our efforts after the MDG 2015 deadline.

"This post-2015 agenda must have poverty eradication as its highest
priority and sustainable development at its core. After all, the only
way to make poverty eradication irreversible is by putting the world
on a sustainable development path," he said.

In that regard, the UN chief stressed that the international community
had much work to do: while poverty levels have declined significantly,
progress has been uneven.

"Our impressive achievement in cutting poverty by half should not
blind us to the fact that more than 1.2 billion people still live in
extreme poverty worldwide," he said, stressing that too many,
especially women and girls, continue to be denied access to adequate
health care and sanitation, quality education and decent housing.

Further, too many young people lack jobs and the skills that respond
to market demands. Rising inequality in many countries -- both rich
and poor -- is fuelling exclusion from economic, social and political
spheres, and the impacts of climate change and loss of biodiversity
hit the poorest the hardest. "All of this underpins the need for
strong and responsive institutions," Mr. Ban said.

"We need to do more to listen and act for those whose voices often go
unheard -- people living in poverty, and in particular among them
indigenous people, the older persons and those living with
disabilities, the unemployed, migrants and minorities," he said,
adding: "We need to support them in their struggle to escape poverty
and build better lives for themselves and their families."

Over the past year, the UN has been spearheading an unprecedented
global conversation on the world people want. "That dialogue must
continue -- and lead to the active and meaningful inclusion of people
living in poverty -- as we chart a course to ending poverty
everywhere," said Mr. Ban.

For her part, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, Magdalena
Sepúlveda, called on States to tackle the deep-rooted causes of gender
inequality and women's greater vulnerability to poverty.

Urging Governments to recognize and value unpaid care work, and ensure
it is better supported and more equitably shared between women and
men, she warned in her message for the Day that the unequal
distribution of unpaid care work, fuelled by damaging gender
stereotypes, is a major human rights issue.

"It is unacceptable that, in the 21st century, unpaid care work such
as cooking, childcare, looking after frail older relatives and
fetching water and fuel, which heavily contributes to economic growth
and social development, is not better valued, supported or shared,"
said Ms. Sepúlveda.

She stressed that State policies must place care as a social and
collective responsibility and ensure that the necessary public
services and infrastructure -- including childcare, healthcare, water
and energy provision -- are in place, especially in disadvantaged
areas.

"Poverty cannot be eradicated without concerted action on the specific
obstacles women face," Ms. Sepúlveda said, stressing that the fact
that most countries around the world do not recognize and guarantee
the rights of care-givers or distribute the costs of care more evenly
across society is a major barrier to women's ability to lift
themselves out of poverty.

She also noted that in both developed and developing countries, women
work longer hours than men when unpaid work is taken into account, but
receive lower earnings and less recognition for their contribution.

"When women undertake a disproportional amount of unpaid care, they
ended having very little time to enjoyment of their rights to
education, decent work on an equal basis with men. This entrenches
women's poverty and social exclusion," the independent expert said.

"To commemorate the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty,
I wish to remind States and others that efforts to end poverty must
include valuing, supporting and redistributing unpaid care as an
essential part of the strategy," she said.Oct 17 2013 10:00AM
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