By Seamus Neville (United Kingdom) and Diana Skelton (France) “What do you want?” Those are never words you want to hear—even less so when you’ve walked into an office hoping to get help with an administrative problem. When people live in poverty, they’re so often made to feel unwelcome. It may be because of the…
By: Magdalena Macinska (Poland) The light installation you can see in the photo says “Ten years in the EU” and it commemorates the tenth anniversary of Poland joining the EU. There have been many debates on how enlargement has influenced Polish society. However, I am not certain if we have asked ourselves the question of…
By: Donald Lee (United States) The International Committee for October 17 welcomes and appreciates the theme chosen by the United Nations, in consultation with activists, civil society and non-governmental organizations, for the 2014 commemoration of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The choice of this theme underscores the United Nations’ recognition of the…
By: Ben Fehsenfeld (United States) What does it mean to have a right to housing? I was wondering this when I was working with the ATD Fourth World team in Geneva, Switzerland a few years ago. Being American, I’d heard of civil rights, sure, but not so much about human rights in general. ATD Fourth…
Together in Dignity 