India joins as a founding member at the UN’s ‘Alliance for Poverty Eradication’

NEW DELHI: India has joined as a founding member of the Alliance for Poverty Eradication of the United Nations, a key move towards the Sustainable Development Goal 1. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President, 74th Assembly of the UN would officially launch the Alliance at the General Assembly, on June 30. The alliance would serve as a medium for the forum to act towards generating awareness about the growing levels of poverty to various other challenges like world peace, human rights and sustainable development.

Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India, speaking at the informal meeting of the President of the General Assembly and members of the Alliance, emphasised on the necessity of developing policies that could alleviate poverty and the Alliance could be the answer.  He said that poverty is like a punishment for a crime that one didn’t even coming. Moving forward, policy design and implementation should consider gender mainstreaming as ample of data shows that it poverty effects women and children disproportionately, the Vice President said on the occasion of the announcement.

The idea of the alliance aims to give the participants to work on measures that could be instituted to get the world economy working post the pandemic again, a concept note of the Alliance said.