2024 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: A Health Economist and Policy Expert, has appealed to leaders of African countries to shun most borrowed Policies that have pushed most Citizens from being Poor to being Very Poor, Most Poor and Extremely Poor. Speaking on the 2024 Theme: “Ending Social and Institutional Maltreatment, Acting together for just, peaceful and inclusive societies”, Dr Oluedo, adviced the leaders and their Policy handlers to allow the Citizens problem stream to converge with policy, and political streams to achieve a People friendly Policy change. He warned that churning out policies in the total absence of the problem’s streams has caused regime change in many countries of the world.
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty encourages individuals, communities, and governments worldwide to take concrete steps to alleviate poverty, empower marginalized communities, and work towards a world where everyone can enjoy their basic human rights. The Day underscores poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon that includes both a lack of income and a lack of basic capabilities to live in dignity, including unsafe housing, lack of nutritious food, limited access to healthcare, dangerous work conditions, unequal access to justice, and lack of political power. It also provides an opportunity to acknowledge the effort and struggle of people living in poverty, a chance for them to make their concerns heard, and a moment to recognize that poor people are the first ones to fight against poverty.
People living in poverty face negative attitudes. They are stigmatized, discriminated against, judged for example by their appearance, accent, address – or lack of it, blamed for their situation, and treated with disrespect. Social maltreatment creates a setting for institutional maltreatment, with a combination of negative attitudes, like mistrust and disrespect, as well as controlling discriminatory policies and practices, denying people of their fundamental human rights. Social and Institutional maltreatment interact and amplify each other, fueling this double-edged violence and deepening the injustice, and this is more pronounced for people who face other forms of prejudice as well, including gender, sexual orientation, race, or ethnicity. Daily experiences of injustice and dehumanization undermines self-esteem, destroys personal agency, denies people of their dignity and the chance of getting out of poverty. Social and institutional maltreatment is a catastrophic loss of human potential to society.
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