Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 25, § 1
Rare diseases and SDG 1
People with rare diseases The trap of a vicious circle of vulnerability and poverty due to exclusion from health and education systems and the labor market is a constant in the life of rare disease patients.
Poverty is usually associated with a lack of health, education, food, knowledge, and many other things that make the difference between living and simply surviving.
People living with a rare disease are confronted daily (and often from birth) with obstacles such as exclusion from health and education systems. It leads to lower employment rates and traps them in a vicious circle of vulnerability and poverty.
By supporting people living with a rare disease, we are helping the most vulnerable of the vulnerable and thus taking a further step towards eradicating poverty in all its forms.
Fonte: NGO Committee for Rare Diseases
THE SDG 1 IN THE 2030 AGENDA
In 2000, the world committed to halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and achieved remarkable gains in human development. By 2015, poverty had been significantly reduced, access to primary education and health outcomes had improved, and progress had been made in promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls. However, eradicating extreme poverty remains a challenge, with more than 700 million people living on less than US$1.90 (PPP) daily and more than half of the global population living on less than US$ $8.00 per day.
In a world confronted with growing development challenges, the 2030 Agenda recognizes that eradicating poverty, in all its forms, is the greatest global challenge to achieving sustainable development. Therefore, the main priority of sustainable development must be the poorest and most vulnerable: no one will be left behind!
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, art. 22
SDG 1 TARGETS TO BE COMPLETED BY 2030
| 1.1 | By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.90 a day |
| 1.2 | By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions |
| 1.3 | Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable |
| 1.4 | By 2030, ensure that all people, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance |
| 1.5 | By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters |
| 1.a | Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions |
| 1.b | Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions |
Do you want to know how Brazil’s performance was in this field?
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Spotlight Report 2022 Brazil Synthesis, which is the source of our data, is a document prepared by the Working Group of Civil Society for the 2030 Agenda (GT Agenda 2030/GTSC A2030). It analyzes the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Brazil. It shows what the country needs to do to fulfill the commitment it assumed with the UN to reach global goals by 2030.
To find out how Brazil performed in SDG 1, click here.
