In Fiji, Father Kevin Barr said two thirds of Fiji’s population are living in poverty or close to it.
Representing the Peoples Community Network in a seminar titled “The Challenges of Poverty to the Constitution” held at the University of the South Pacific He said 60 per cent of the workers in full-time employment earned wages below the poverty line and 15-20 per cent of the people lived in squatter settlements.
“Poverty is a man-made problem which we ourselves can solve if we really want to,” he said.
Barr said the constitution should address the rights of all the people to their basic needs.Source
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- The Fiji Times
- Image: WNN
