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15 November 2022

Le Monde: Discriminating against job applicants because they live in poverty is illegal

8 November 2022

The Diplomat: Universal Social Protection in Asia Is Within Reach – If We Have the Will

8 November 2022

Daily Maverick: Povertyism is discrimination, pure and simple, and must be banned

7 November 2022

Video: Non-take-up: The gap between social benefits on paper and in practice

28 October 2022

Press release: Ban “povertyism” in the same way as racism and sexism: UN expert

26 October 2022

The Guardian: Make poverty discrimination illegal like racism or sexism, official to tell UN

25 October 2022

Presentation to the UN General Assembly: Povertyism

21 October 2022

Video: Businesses and the Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights

17 October 2022

Press release: Increase benefits and wages in line with inflation or lives will be lost: UN poverty expert

23 September 2022

Common Dreams: A welfare system built to exclude will never reduce poverty in the US

14 September 2022

Video: The Contribution of Development to the Enjoyment of All Human Rights

7 July 2022

Thomson Reuters Foundation: Social protection must be extended to millions of excluded informal workers

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