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Stand Up - Take Action, End Poverty Now!

14/10/2009

Citizens attempt to break another Guinness World Record by showing their governments they won't stand for broken promises to world's poorest.

After a year in which progress on eradicating global poverty has actually reversed, millions of people will come together across continents, cultures and time zones next week to tell their governments in no uncertain terms what they want them to do: End Poverty Now.

Citizens will gather at events across the globe on October 16-18, 2009 as part of "Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now!" to demand that world leaders achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - a set of promises to eradicate extreme poverty and its root causes by 2015. In a sign of the massive global demand for the achievement of the MDGs, last year more than 116 million people participated in "Stand Up," shattering the Guinness World Record for the largest mobilization of human beings in recorded history.