Understanding attitudes and countering stigma to tackle poverty and inequality

Those living in poverty and experiencing intersecting inequalities across class, race and gender are often blamed for their own predicament and face negative stereotyping, stigmatisation and discrimination. Addressing this challenge requires ambitious ways of rethinking how we live together through understanding why negative attitudes are formed and reproduced, how stigma and processes of discrimination, marginalisation and exclusion are experienced, and how negative attitudes and processes can be countered in creating a more caring and equal society.