GENEVA (16 October 2017) – The world’s poor are at disproportionate risk of torture, arrest, early death and domestic violence, but their civil and political rights are being airbrushed out of the picture, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston has warned in a hard-hitting sta
News
![Women and their children looking for valuables in a trash dump in Kinshasa. Photo Radio Okapi /John Bompengo](https://monusco.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/styles/380x220/public/field/image/pauvrete_0059.jpg?itok=NSJAaoFO)
Women and their children looking for valuables in a trash dump in Kinshasa. Photo Radio Okapi /John Bompengo
![Maman Sambo Sidikou, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), addresses the Security Council. UN Photo/Cia Pak](https://monusco.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/styles/380x220/public/field/image/sidikou-drc_sc_737831_2017.jpg?itok=Qa5E9c5i)
Maman Sambo Sidikou, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), addresses the Security Council. UN Photo/Cia Pak
![Security and humanitarian situation deteriorating amidst political uncertainty in Democratic Republic of Congo](https://monusco.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/styles/380x220/public/field/image/sidikou-oct2017-1.jpeg?itok=iwbs750V)
Security and humanitarian situation deteriorating amidst political uncertainty in Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo UN/Web TV
![Raising Awareness on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the North Kivu Community](https://monusco.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/styles/380x220/public/field/image/_mg_0001-l.jpg?itok=8GjGzQU_)
Raising Awareness on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the North Kivu Community. Photo MONUSCO/Martha Biongo
![MONUSCO repels deadly attack by suspected ADF in Mamundioma; reinforcements deployed to secure the location](https://monusco.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/styles/380x220/public/field/image/monusco-forces-drc_0.jpg?itok=iSAPuzpc)
MONUSCO repels deadly attack by suspected ADF in Mamundioma; reinforcements deployed to secure the location. Photo MONUSCO/Force
![Radio Okapi reopens its broadcasting station in Kananga](https://monusco.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/styles/380x220/public/field/image/ane_0769-l.jpg?itok=WHryxTQG)
Radio Okapi reopens its broadcasting station in Kananga. Photo MONUSCO/Anne Herrmann
![United Nations International Day of Older Persons : Younger generations must act now to stamp out human rights denials in old age – UN expert](https://monusco.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/styles/380x220/public/field/image/old_men_looking_thru_window.jpeg?itok=gkHrzAI-)
Older people looking through a window. Photo MONUSCO/Abel Kavanagh