Overview
- The 2025 observance focuses on ending social and institutional maltreatment by ensuring respect and effective support for families, with calls to move from control to care, oversight to empowerment, and imposed to inclusive solutions.
- UN Secretary‑General António Guterres urged rejection of stigma and discrimination, calling poverty a systemic denial of dignity and human rights.
- The World Bank in June 2025 raised the international poverty line to $3 a day, lifting its 2022 estimate of people in extreme poverty from 713 million to 838 million and projecting 8.9% of the world may still be poor by 2030 if trends persist.
- Officials and researchers highlight climate shocks and conflict as major setbacks for the poorest, with one in five people exposed to extreme weather and a growing share of extreme poverty in fragile settings.
- India reports a fall in multidimensional poverty from about 29% in 2013–14 to roughly 11% in 2019–21, with reporting crediting initiatives such as the JAM trinity, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, Ujjwala, Ayushman Bharat, and expanded food assistance.