FREEING ONESELF FROM POVERTY THROUGH WORK

VATICAN CITY, JUN 24, 2003 (VIS) - Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, headed the Holy See's delegation to the 91st International Conference on Work which took place in Geneva from June 3 to 19 on the theme "Freeing Oneself from Poverty Through Work."

In his speech, given on June 16 and published today, Bishop Crepaldi affirmed that "a human being who is deprived of the necessities of life is a humiliated human being who is denied his economic and social rights, and in extreme cases, the right to life. But poverty," he exclaimed, "is not a destiny!"

"It is necessary," he concluded, "that those responsible for the orientation of work policies, nationally and internationally, turn their attention to the fundamental problem of unemployment which affects young people."

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