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Hunger for Bread,
Hunger for Roses

Eugen Brand, the Director General of the International Movement ATD Fourth World on the current global food crisis, hunger and extreme poverty.

How many of us thought that the horrors of widespread hunger were a thing of the past? In Ireland, the potato famines are a distant memory for a wealthy, modern country. And yet on other continents, in decade after decade, famines have continued to strike, sometimes with faint echoes in the international press and corresponding aid campaigns, and at other times in complete silence with no one bearing witness to acts of solidarity amid the suffering.

Dignity in the Face of Extreme Poverty

The International Movement ATD Fourth World publishes its report on consultations with people in extreme poverty on the draft guiding principles “Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: The Rights of the Poor”
October 17 2007 (Interim Rapport)

United Nations Draft Guiding Principles - "Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: The Rights of the Poor"

In August 2006 the UN Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, one of the main expert bodies on human rights at the world level, adopted Draft Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights.
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Wherever men and women are condemned to live in extreme poverty, human rights are violated.
To come together to ensure that these rights be respected is our solemn duty.

Joseph Wresinski