Poverty key challenge for human rights

Forum seeks to turn 'empty talk' into constructive global action

China highlighted the importance of poverty reduction in promoting human rights worldwide, as hundreds of officials and scholars from around the globe gathered in Beijing for the 2018 Beijing Forum on Human Rights, which concluded on Wednesday.

Despite progress over the last few decades, 700 million people worldwide are still living in dire poverty, with many developing countries grappling with hunger, disease and conflict, according to Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee.