«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
8th session
02 June – 18 June 2008
[Excerpt from the declaration]
An income of less than a dollar a day makes you extremely poor, less than two dollars makes you poor, and then… you’re middle class.
Fifteen years ago, at the Vienna Conference, the international community affirmed the need to put an end to extreme poverty. Seven years later, at the Millennium Summit, it gave itself another fifteen years to halve extreme poverty. So, half of the “extremely poor” are sacrificed in advance…and so are the poor.
