(Photo: AP Images / Pavel Rahman)
Members of a rural musician band, foreground, participate along with others as they hold hands and take oath to work together to fight hunger, poverty and discrimination during a rally to mark International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009. U.N. declared Oct. 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty in 1993 and invited all the countries to devote the Day to presenting and promoting, as appropriate in the national context, concrete activities with regard to the eradication of poverty and destitution.

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