South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR) expresses solidarity on the international day for the eradication off poverty on 17th October 2009.
Over the last five years, in an era of unprecedented global wealth creation, the number of people living in poverty has increased. Poverty is not simply about low income: it is about multidimensional deprivation-hunger,malnutrition, illiteracy, unsafe drinking water, lack of access to basic health service, social discrimination, physical insecurity and political exclusion. According to World Bank statistics 1.4 billion people live in poverty out of which 400 million poor are in South Asia.