Justice is an important moral principle that applies to all areas of human life. On the personal level, Tika (Justice) directs each of us to give to Te Atua (God)

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  1. Poverty is a global concern that many people ignore in their everyday life. Because of poverty other issues such as child labour, drugs, violence and inequality takes place.
  2. Poverty is a constant feature in the media that needs to be addressed by our world leaders. Coming from a third world country, India, it’s saddening to see the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.

No one common definition of poverty is accepted by all countries. Poverty is generally categorized as material deprivation. Generally, poverty is defined as the state of being poor or deficient in money or means of subsistence.

Justice is an important moral principle that applies to all areas of human life. On the personal level, Tika (Justice) directs each of us to give to Te Atua (God), self, and others what is due to them. It requires us to take responsibility for the world in which we live and care for the environment that surrounds us. Injustice is the denial of justices in that it disregards rights and neglects duties.

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Justice is defined as the quality of being righteous or fair - people getting what is right, fair and appropriate. At household, community, societal, national and international levels, various aspects of the above need to be provided, as well as commitment to various democratic institutions that do not become corrupted by special interests and agendas.

Poverty affects millions of people all over the world, both in developed and developing countries. More than 2 billion (one in five) people live on less than U.S$1 a day.

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As the margin of the rich and the poor widens, global poverty to day has increased, the middle class cannot catch up with the rich and slid back among the poor causing the numbers of the poor to rise up, poverty in today's global village has become the root cause of all/many evils, because it has power and the ability to make people compromise their once held and respected moral values, cultures and religious beliefs, poverty has created a new race of people with common marks of frustrations, loss of hope, prospects and value for life.


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