Geneva: Regarding poverty, an independent United Nations expert warns that the Corona Virus epidemic is yet to have the worst effect on poverty and has been done so far by governments to protect people Measures are insufficient.
Belgian legal expert Olivier de Shatter, specially appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in relation to extreme poverty and human rights, said the measure for social security has many drawbacks. “These current measures are generally short-term, financing is inadequate and many will have difficulties,” he said.
His message was to world leaders related to the United Nations General Assembly meeting this month. According to a UN statement issued on Friday, he called for more decisive steps to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. The expert said that the economic slowdown resulting from this epidemic has been unprecedented since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
He cautioned that on the basis of $ 3.20 per day for the poverty line, 17.6 million people worldwide can fall under the purview of poverty. He said that although governments have talked about social schemes to help, the poorest people in the world often fall out of their benefit because they are not digitally literate or have no access to the Internet.
