{"id":17744,"date":"2022-10-14T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/?p=17744"},"modified":"2022-10-14T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:17:32","slug":"the-secretary-general-message-on-the-international-day-for-the-eradication-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/?p=17744","title":{"rendered":"The Secretary-General Message on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">UNIS\/HORNA\/Vienna-October 2022<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_16786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16786\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16786\" src=\"http:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antonio-Guterres-1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antonio-Guterres-1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antonio-Guterres-1.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SG Anthony Guetaras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we face a harsh truth: the world is moving backwards.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">COVID-19 plunged millions into poverty, setting back more than four years of hard-won progress. Inequalities are widening. National and household economies are battered by job losses, skyrocketing food and energy prices, and the gathering shadows of a global recession.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">At the same time, the climate crisis and raging conflicts are causing immense suffering, with the poorest people bearing the brunt.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Developing countries are being squeezed dry, denied access to resources and debt relief to invest in recovery and growth.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Sustainable Development Goals are being pushed far out of reach.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is a wake-up call to the world. This year\u2019s theme \u2014 \u201cDignity for all in practice\u201d \u2014 must be a rallying cry for urgent global action.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Action to invest in people-centred solutions \u2014 from health and decent work, to gender equality, social protection, and transformed food and education systems.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Action to transform a morally bankrupt global financial system, and ensure access to financing and debt relief for all countries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Action to support developing countries as they transition from planet-killing fossil fuels to renewable energy and job-creating green economies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Action to end conflicts, heal geopolitical divisions and pursue peace.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">On this important day, let us renew our commitment to a better world for all.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Let us consign poverty to the pages of history.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNIS\/HORNA\/Vienna-October 2022 As we mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we face a harsh truth: the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17745,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17744\/revisions\/17745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}