Everyone has the right to live free from poverty and the chance to thrive. Every efforts must be made to eradicate poverty so all people, everywhere, can live with dignity and prosperity. Saturday is EndPoverty Day.

The observance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty can be traced back to 17 October 1987. On that day, over a hundred thousand people gathered at the Trocadéro in Paris , where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948, to honour the victims of extreme poverty, violence and hunger.