Misery
See also: Misery (homonymy)
The term misery has several significances which meet to reflect a situation of distress: great destitution, misfortune, Suffering, trouble, sadness but also smallness (“a starvation wage”).
It is often used to describe an extreme state of Pauvreté but has also a pejorative connotation, dependant on a feeling of social Exclusion.
In the Bible, the account of Job is a deep reflection on the direction of human misery.
In its Thought, Blaise Pascal devotes several sentences on the topic of the misery of the man without God .
Contrary misery with the human rights
An author as Victor Hugo among most known of those which at the same time described the daily life in misery, but is also denounced this situation, regarding it as a violation of the human rights.
It is what the text proclaims on the Parvis of the human rights to the Palais of Trocadéro, in Paris:
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Where men are condemned to live in misery,
- the human rights is violated.
- to link itself to make them respect is a sacred duty.
- (P. Joseph Wresinski, extracted the text being reproduced on the flagstone inaugurated in 1987)
For several years, a sub-commission of UNO on the human rights in Geneva has studied this bond between “extreme poverty and human rights” and published several reports.
More than one billion children - is more half of the children in the world are in danger. Such is the report drawn up by the UNICEF in his tenth annual report devoted to “the state of the children in the world” returned public Thursday, December 9, 2004.
Since 1987, on October 17th is marked like the world day of the refusal of the misière, recognized in 1992 by the United Nations like international Journée for the elimination of poverty.
See too
Poverty, social Exclusion, Underprivileged class, Fourth World
External bond
Final report on the extreme poverty and the human rights of Léandro Despouy, special protractor of the Sub-commission of the Human rights of the United Nations - E/CN/4/Sub.2/1996/13
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