STAND UP Against Poverty: 15 - 16 October, 2006
23 August, 2006
The United Nations Millennium Campaign, working in partnership with the civil society coalition, the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, will be holding a world-wide mobilization in support of the Millennium Development Goals on 15 - 16 October, 2006 called STAND UP Against Poverty.
In a 24-hour period, the campaign will be asking people to physically stand up against poverty to remind governments of their promise to achieve the MDGs. People around the world - from villages in Pakistan to offices in Auckland - will be part of the global movement.
The campaign has partnered with Guinness to make the STAND UP Against Poverty challenge an official world record for the greatest number of people to stand up for a given cause.
For more information, see http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/standup/.
