The right to live on earth

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On all continents, people and communities affected by extreme poverty fight every day to be able to live amongst other people, despite being constantly chased away.

Unheard Voices Are Needed to Focus the Ambitions for Haiti’s Reconstruction

Since the devastating earthquake of Jan. 12, Haitians themselves have been the first, and still in many districts, the only responders: seizing any makeshift tool to help neighbors out from under rubble, trying to invent ways to cope with the lack of medical care and the increasingly difficult access to water, food and work. During these same anguished weeks, people and nations all over the world have been looking for new ways to help Haiti – with no consensus yet as to the best approach:

Not meant to live like this

A seminar in New Orleans around the experiences before and after Hurricane Katrina of people who live in poverty and those who have witnessed their courage and their efforts to eradicate extreme poverty everyday.

Participation in the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Summary of our participation in the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Sustainable development Sustainable development will only bear fruit if the future of the people living in the worst conditions is considered as a success criterion of all policies, whether in the Global North or South.

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