Sustainable Development Goal 1:
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/poverty/
https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal1
https://sdgs.un.org/topics/poverty-eradication
Further information
- Global Issues on the UN Agenda – Ending Poverty: https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/ending-poverty
UN Conferences & Observances
- High-Level Political Forum, 30 June – 9 July 2024 – “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient, and innovative solutions”: https://hlpf.un.org/2024
- High-Level Political Forum, 10-19 June 2017 – “Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world”: https://hlpf.un.org/2017
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 17 October
https://www.un.org/en/observances/day-for-eradicating-poverty
https://social.desa.un.org/issues/poverty-eradication/international-day-for-the-eradication-of-poverty-homepage - Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty 2018-2027
https://social.desa.un.org/issues/poverty-eradication/third-united-nations-decade-for-the-eradication-of-poverty-2018-2027
UN Entities
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- OHCHR and the human rights dimension of poverty: https://www.ohchr.org/en/poverty
- Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-poverty/guiding-principles-extreme-poverty-and-human-rights
- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights: https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-poverty
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) – Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT): https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/PRGT
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – Child Poverty:
https://www.unicef.org/social-policy/child-poverty - United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs – Social Development Issues – Poverty Eradication: https://social.desa.un.org/issues/poverty-eradication
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Poverty reduction and inequality: https://www.undp.org/tag/poverty-reduction-and-inequality
- SDG 1 confidential: Consigning poverty to history (11 October 2023): https://stories.undp.org/sdg-1-confidential
- World Bank – Poverty: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty
Selected Statements and Speeches of UN Officials
- Eradicating poverty ‘an essential foundation for humane, dignified societies’, stresses Secretary-General, in Message for International Day (SG/SM/22404, 7 October 2024): https://press.un.org/en/2024/sgsm22404.doc.htm
- Marking International Day, Secretary-General stresses ‘in our world of plenty, poverty should have no home’, calls for renewed commitment to achieve SDGs (SG/SM/21978, 6 October 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21978.doc.htm
- Warning over half of world is being left behind, Secretary-General urges greater action to end extreme poverty, at Sustainable Development Goals Progress Report Launch (SG/SM/21776, 25 April 2023): https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21776.doc.htm
- ‘Let us consign poverty to the pages of history’, Secretary-General Says in Message for International Day (SG/SM/21533, 14 October 2022): https://press.un.org/en/2022/sgsm21533.doc.htm
- Warning extreme poverty increasing for first time in two decades, Secretary-General Observance Message says global pandemic recovery must be inclusive, end inequality (SG/SM/20974, 14 October 2021): https://press.un.org/en/2021/sgsm20974.doc.htm
Selected Publications available online
- Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty and Conflict (UNDP / OPHI): https://hdr.undp.org/content/2024-global-multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi
- Pathways out of the Polycrisis: Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024 (World Bank): https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-prosperity-and-planet
- New estimates of the cost of ending poverty and its global distribution (UNU- WIDER Working Paper 46/2024): https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2024/508-0
- Measuring rural poverty with a multidimensional approach: The Rural Multidimensional Poverty Index (FAO, 2022): https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb8269en
- Secretary-General’s Policy Brief: Investing in Jobs and Social Protection for Poverty Eradication and a Sustainable Recovery (28 September 2021): https://unsdg.un.org/resources/secretary-generals-policy-brief-investing-jobs-and-social-protection-poverty-eradication
- Overlooked: Examining the Impact of Disasters and Climate Shocks on Poverty in Europe and Central Asia (World Bank, March 2023): https://bit.ly/3jb7bEk
- Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018: Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle (World Bank): https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-and-shared-prosperity
- Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children (UNICEF, October 2016): https://www.unicef.org/publications/index_92826.html
- Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights (OHCHR, January 2014): https://www.ohchr.org/en/publications/reference-publications/guiding-principles-extreme-poverty-and-human-rights
March 2025
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https://unric.org/en/unric-library-backgrounder-poverty/