The events of ´Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now´ will be held across the globe on October 16-18, 2009, says a statement issue on Tuesday. Last year, more than 116 million people across the globe had participated in the event, breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest mobilization of human beings in recorded history.
This year, the Millennium Campaign expects the people to break another record by showing their governments that they will not stand for broken promises, mainly as progress on eradicating global poverty has actually reversed in 2009.
The organizers are also using digital technology for the first time to make mobilization and engagement possible online this year.
“With just six years left until the deadline by which heads of state have pledged to eradicate extreme poverty and its root causes, ´Stand Up´ will be a stark reminder that citizens will not accept excuses for governments breaking promises to the world´s poorest and most vulnerable citizens,” said Salil Shetty, director of the campaign, as quoted in the release.
According to UN reports, the leaders across the globe have failed largely on fronts like women´s rights, maternal mortality and hunger. Worse still, 70 percent of the people living in poverty are women and children, and 500,000 women continue to die annually in the process of giving life.
As the part of this ´Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now´, National Planning Commission and UN in Nepal are organizing an event on October 16, in which President Dr Ram Baran Yadav is scheduled to read a ´Stand Up´ pledge with members of the Constituent Assembly.
Following the pledge, the Millennium Campaign and Art of Living is hosting a concert in the open-air theatre in the heart of Kathmandu, wherein they expect thousands of people to gather and stand up for peace and the reduction of poverty in Nepal.
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