SDG 1: No Poverty
Updated: 30 September 2022
Manuela Leporesi
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- Ending poverty is essential to improving people’s health and well-being
- People who live in poverty are more likely to suffer ill health
- People can improve their standard of living with the support of human rights
- There are human rights related to poverty for example:
- Right to an adequate standard of living
- Right to social security
- Equal rights of women of all ages in economic life
- Right to equality and to not suffer discrimination
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