The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is observed every year on 17 October.
- The theme for International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2023 is "Dignity for All in Practice”.
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2023 aims to raise awareness and draw attention to what it means to live with dignity. Dignity is not a quality that can be isolated.
- The celebration of International Day for the Eradication of Poverty can be traced back to October 17, 1987. On that day, more than a million people had gathered at the Trocadero in Paris, where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948.
- The United Nations General Assembly, through resolution 47/196 adopted on December 22, 1992, proclaimed October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.