October 17 for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

December 22, 1992 the 47th United Nations General Assembly to determine the annual October 17 as "International Day for the Eradication of Poverty," is to arouse the international community's attention to the problem of poverty, promotion and removal of poverty around the world to promote the work of the mobilization of all States to take specific action to help the poor. This is February 12, 2004, an Iraqi girl begging in the streets of Baghdad passersby. Post-war unemployment rate of more than 60 percent of Iraq, there are a large number of people living in poverty.