Caritas warns of poverty in Europe

Sydney
24 March 2002

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Caritas warns of poverty in Europe

Caritas Europe has called for urgent moves to protect weak and vulnerable social groups in Europe as more and more people fall into the poverty trap.

“The collapse of the Soviet Union has resulted in the emergence of over 150 million ‘new poor’ and prompted a redrawing of the development map,” it said in a special report.

As many as 130 million people in Europe were considered “income poor”, Caritas said.

The facts “cannot reveal the depth of human pain and misery experienced by millions of people living on islands of poverty – as pensioners, homeless persons, long-term unemployed, lone parents – amidst a sea of plenty”.

Caritas Europe called for the introduction of anti-poverty programs to “tackle the root causes” by offering a “matrix of multisectoral programs”.

It attributed a growing awareness of “the interrelatedness of poverty, population, human rights, health and gender issues” to accelerated globalisation.

The report was compiled from data from 43 countries, with populations ranging from 33,000 in Monaco to 146.2 million in Russia.