Poverty Elimination

World day of Poverty Eradication

14/10/2017 Advocacy, Poverty Elimination by Caritas Communications

Poverty is a form of violence. It leads to humiliation and it silences people. It destroys lives. But poverty is not inevitable. Like slavery or discrimination, it can be overcome. Those who endure poverty resist its injustice in countless ways. If we are to confront the challenges facing the world today, we need their intelligence ...

World Food Day: Food for All?

14/10/2016 Advocacy, Africa, Climate Change, Development, Food, Haiti, Latin America, Poverty Elimination, SDG, Zimbabwe by Caritas Communications

World Food Day this 16 October reminds the world again of the imperative to free humanity from hunger. Yet, today’s reality leaves us with a sense of deep discouragement.

The right to decent housing as part of our common home

14/10/2016 Advocacy, Development, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

Wars, disasters, poverty and a lack of city planning and protection of human rights means a large proportion of the world's population doesn’t have access to adequate housing.

Breaking Bread towards zero hunger

16/09/2016 Advocacy, Development, Food, High-Level Meetings and Events, Malnutrition, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

Different community and faith leaders will come together on the evening of 21 September at the United Nations in New York to “break bread” in a celebration of a shared commitment to achieving zero hunger in our lifetime.

Raising the voices of #YoungCaritas to fight injustice

31/07/2016 Advocacy, Development, Europe, Honduras, Latin America, Meetings & Events, Poland, Poverty Elimination by Caritas Communications

Daniel Hale encourages young people from Caritas to use their voices for the poor and to fight injustice.

A human rights school in Amazonia

4/05/2016 Advocacy, Blog, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Development, Ecuador, Latin America, Peru, Poverty Elimination, SDG, Venezuela by Caritas Communications

The Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM) aims to create a training programme for community leaders and pastoral workers in the Amazon region, who have an extensive track record in protection and may thus respond to the challenges highlighted by the Pope.

Caritas promotes manual to eradicate extreme poverty

10/02/2016 Advocacy, Development, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

Caritas Internationalis supports and will promote for use among its member organisations the "Making Human Rights Work for People Living in Extreme Poverty: a Handbook for Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights”.

Pope’s historic visit to the United States reinforces global need to end HIV/AIDS in children

30/09/2015 Advocacy, Blog, Development, Health, HIV & AIDS, North America, Poverty Elimination, SDG, United States by Caritas Communications

Remarks by Pope Francis curiously coincided with the precipitous and remarkable decision by a USA-based pharmaceutical company to raise - by over 5,000% - the price of a 62-year-old medication used by persons living with HIV.

How Pope Francis touched us with his words to the United Nations

29/09/2015 Advocacy, Africa, Blog, Development, Nigeria, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

Pope Francis throws open a challenge to leaders of states and governments to go beyond making the UN a mere chatter house and to not fall into ‘a declarational nominalism’, where the fashion is to always make declarations ‘without teeth’.

Food, war and Caritas at EXPO 2015

29/09/2015 Agriculture, Blog, Climate Change, Development, Europe, Food, Food waste, Italy, Malnutrition, Poverty Elimination by Caritas Communications

Caritas wants you to think about food: where it comes from, how to make sure everyone’s got enough and of the right quality, its ability to bring us together and its essential role everyone’s lives.