Bihar represents the challenge of development abject poverty surrounded by corruption.

Over a billion persons continued to live in abject poverty, and women carried a disproportionate share of the burden in coping with poverty.

One such difference is today's global economic landscape, characterized by pockets of affluence and mass, abject poverty.

No person, society or country will be safe if others are living in abject poverty and conflict.

The greatest evil the most effective and consuming terrorism of our age is the terrorism of abject poverty.

If current trends continue, there will be more than 800 million people living in abject poverty by 2015.

By emphasizing the need to combat the alarming levels of poverty and abject poverty, humankind's collective conscience will emerge in favour of development and progress.

While hundreds of millions have had lifted from them the yoke of poverty and despair, millions more have been added to those living in abject poverty.

Despite the progress made so far, we note with great concern that abject poverty remains a feature of the majority of developing countries.

Violence, displacement, human rights abuses, and poverty had clearly taken a huge toll. Sudan has been ravaged for decades by bitter conflicts rooted in abject poverty, struggles over resources, and ethnic and religious tensions.

Although many important gains had been made, many indigenous people continued to live in abject poverty and experienced human and civil rights violations and discrimination.

However, despite significant gains over the past three decades, some 20 per cent of the world apos s people continued to live in abject poverty.

The abject poverty of these women means that some of them are not even getting a proper diet needed to allow drug treatments to work effectively.

We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty (resolution 55 2, para.

Say Aye! and you shall be abject.

Say Aye! and you shall be abject.

Whatever else might divide development economists, they are in broad agreement that rapid and sustained economic growth is a sine qua non for tackling abject levels of poverty.

China s rapid growth has rescued multitudes from abject poverty, and quasi Corporatist arrangements are clearly better than Mao s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. But that is faint praise.

Did We not create you from an abject fluid?

Did We not create you from an abject fluid?

Millions lived in abject poverty, suffering from malnutrition, lack of health care and immunisation, safe drinking water, sanitation and education and millions were deprived because of armed conflict, exploitation and discrimination.

In conflict resolution, serious attention had to be paid to the root causes of conflict such as abject poverty, illiteracy, absence of good governance and a range of other problems related to underdevelopment.

Then kept his posterity with a part of an abject fluid.

Then kept his posterity with a part of an abject fluid.

Mr. Chidyausiku (Zimbabwe) said that human rights could not be guaranteed in an environment of abject poverty, and the promotion and protection of human rights depended upon the realization of the right to development.

17. In Sri Lanka, abject poverty and starvation have been unknown owing to the distribution of free or heavily subsidized essential food, which has ensured a minimum basket of basic food items for everyone.

Lifting peoples out of abject poverty and endowing them with appropriate means to lead productive lives is the best guarantee for long term sustained social stability, which, in turn, will ensure prosperity and international peace.

The expansion of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and the destruction of basic infrastructure had plunged millions of Palestinians into abject poverty, sharpening tensions and exacerbating the difficulties with which they had to contend.

So they contrived a plot against him, but We made them abject.

So they contrived a plot against him, but We made them abject.

In the midst of an increasingly prosperous global economy, 10.7 million children every year do not live to see their fifth birthday, and more than 1 billion people survive in abject poverty on less than 1 per day.

They said, Shall we believe in you, whereas the abject people are with you?

They said, Shall we believe in you, whereas the abject people are with you?

Surely those who oppose God and His Messenger, those are among the most abject.

Surely those who oppose God and His Messenger, those are among the most abject.

The objective is not merely to ensure that Sierra Leone and other countries emerging from conflict do not slide back into conflict rather, the ultimate objective must be to ensure that Sierra Leoneans do not remain in abject poverty.

In the midst of an increasingly prosperous global economy, 10.7 million children every year do not live to see their fifth birthday, and more than 1 billion people survive in abject poverty on less than a 1 a day.

Verily those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be among the most abject beings.

Verily those who oppose Allah and His Messenger will be among the most abject beings.

Among the conclusions reached at the meeting was that the issues of abject poverty, the depletion of natural resources, environmental degradation, pandemics and the social ills of crime and corruption should be resolved in order to ensure international peace and security.

Mrs. RODRIGUES (Mozambique) said that the situation in which many children currently found themselves was alarming, particularly in developing countries such as Mozambique where, because of abject poverty, they were denied even the minimum that they needed in order to grow.

Mr. Ka (Senegal) (interpretation from French) Racial, ethnic or religious hatred, ignorance, cultural prejudice, xenophobia, abject poverty, the stifling of public liberties these are all factors which harm peaceful coexistence among societies. Peace is not only the absence of war.

Given that as many as half of China s 1.3 billion people remain mired in abject poverty, it is in China s interest to ensure that these economic relationships continue to flourish. In the past, China has recognized the vital need for good neighborly relations.

We will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and deshumanizing conditions of extreme poverty to which more than a billion of them are currently subject (see General Assembly resolution 55 2, sect. III, para.

Globalization has become one more painful ordeal for countries such as the Niger, which, despite its real economic potential, is condemned to living in the most abject poverty, and its people are condemned to live in despair and all manner of frustration.