When:
🗓️ October 17
Where:
🌐 Everywhere
Since:
1992
Created by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1992
On October 17 1987 over a hundred thousand people gathered at the Trocadéro in Paris , where in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed, to honor the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger.
This became a yearly event ever since.
#InternationalDayForTheEradicationOfPoverty #DayForTheEradicationOfPoverty
