Writings
A Human Rights Conceptualisation of Poverty
One of Joseph Wresinski’s most important legacies is, I believe, the growing influence of what I call a human rights (…) Read more
The Violence Done To The Poor
This text, published in 1968 in the Revue Igloos/Le Quart Monde, was written in the context of the often violent (…) Read more
Why Choose Poverty?
How do we justify volunteers’ poverty? In our Western civilization, poverty has not been valued as something good in and (…) Read more
A Knowledge That Leads to Action
In December 1980 Joseph Wresinski brought together an international committee of specialists at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The text (…) Read more
The Family – A Place To Live The Gospel
Speech written by Joseph Wresinski for the Fifth Meeting Day of ANPAP (the Association des Parents, Anciens et Amis du (…) Read more
A community of shared destiny.
Today it is popular to make fun of or to condemn the forms that caring and help took on over (…) Read more
Poverty and means of communication.
Their situation of poverty closes all means of communication to the poor
Why do the poor remain so little known? (…) Read more
Do the poor have their own culture?
Volunteers’ meeting, April 1965 (the original French version is found in Écrits et paroles aux Volontaires, I, 1960-1967, pp. 316-321)
Do (…) Read more
In the vicious circle of violence
The French original of this text was first published in 1970 (Feuille de route N° 19). Extract from: Gilles Anouil, (…) Read more
A triple refusal
17th November 1977, Festival of Solidarity with The Fourth World, Paris.
THREE MISTAKEN BELIEFS ABOUT POVERTY WHICH ATD FOURTH WORLD REFUSES (…) Read more