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People on welfare are often stereotyped as people who are ‘happy’ to be idle, living off of the work of others. As Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, underlined in his statement at the end of his visit to the USA in December 2017, “I have been struck by the extent to which caricatured narratives about the purported innate differences between rich and poor have been sold to the electorate by some politicians and media, and have been allowed to define the debate. The rich are industrious, entrepreneurial, patriotic, and the drivers of economic success. The poor are wasters, losers, and scammers. As a result, money spent on welfare is money down the drain.”
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ATD Fourth World is conducting an original study with Britain’s Oxford University in which people who have lived in poverty (…) Read more →
When the study is finished, we will present our results to the United Nations and

Facing the Impossible Together in Haiti.
families and young people in all the meetings and proceedings organized by the United Nations

Journal written during Covid-19 lockdown in Madagascar.
Cash transfer allowance or stipend United Nations World Food Programme Subsidised

ATD Director General describes how one community struggles with the effects of climate change and their ingenious solution to flooding.
In the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals, the nations of the world made a promise

The relentless struggle of ATD members in Peru to access water and their solidarity in times of Covid-19.
According to the United Nations this means that the supply must be sufficient and

Reading time 8 minutes Diana Skelton, originally from the Washington D.C. area, is an ATD Fourth World Volunteer Corps member. (…) Read more →
justice; but she knew that the work isn’t only in big meetings at the United Nations

Cristina Diez Saguillo has been a member of the International Movement ATD Fourth World’s full-time volunteer corps since 2003. Prior (…) Read more →
In 2010 she became the main representative of the organisation to the United Nations

ATD members in Latin America talk about solidarity in their neighbourhoods during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean predicts

In 1957, six European countries founded the “European Economic Community”. Thirty years later, in a June 1987 editorial, Joseph Wresinski (…) Read more →
have led us to always ask questions about justice and peace; they have led our nations