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MEDIA ADVISORY Press Conference Will Announce Record-Breaking Mobilization Close to Two Percent of the People on Earth Stand Up and Take Action to Demand and End to Poverty and To Tell World Leaders that Financial Crisis is Not an Excuse to Break Their Promises Millions of People Mobilized in More Than 120 Countries on October 17-19 to Demand Urgent Action by Governments to End Poverty and Achieve the Millennium Development Goals WHEN: Wednesday, October 22 at 3:30 p.m. CEST (1:30 pm GMT, 9:30 am in New York) WHAT: Mary Robinson, Member of the Elders and President of Realizing Rights, and high-profile anti-poverty activists will host an online press conference to announce results of the historic "Stand Up and Take Action" mobilization, held on October 17-19, and discuss its significance for the fight against global poverty. Campaigners will announce that almost two percent of the people on earth Stood Against Poverty, breaking last year's Guinness World Record of 43 million. People gathered at a huge variety of events across the globe to tell world leaders that the financial crisis is not an excuse for breaking the promises they made at the Millennium Summit in the year 2000 to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The activists will discuss the results and potential impact of the mass mobilization. Reporters will have the opportunity to ask direct questions. WHERE: Online. Visit www.standagainstpoverty.org and follow the link on the homepage to access the press conference. Questions can be submitted in real time via Live Chat or e-mail at standup2008@standagainstpoverty.org. Activists on the panel will include:
*** About the Campaigns: The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is a civil society alliance of social movements, international NGOs, trade unions, community groups, women's organizations, faith and youth groups, local associations and campaigners working together across more than 100 national coalitions/platforms. GCAP is calling for action from the world's leaders to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality. In particular, GCAP demands solutions that address the issues of public accountability, just governance and the fulfilment of human rights; trade justice; more and better aid; debt cancellation; and gender equality and women's rights. For more information, visit www.whiteband.org. The UN Millennium Campaign was established by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2002. The Campaign supports citizens' efforts to hold their governments accountable for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals, formally adopted by 189 countries in the year 2000, are a set of eight specific goals which commit rich and poor countries to work together to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, ensure all boys and girls complete primary school, promote gender equality, improve the health of mothers and children, reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, protect the environment, and create a global partnership for development by ensuring rich countries give more and better aid, debt relief and trade opportunities to poorer countries. For more information, visit www.endpoverty2015.org.
* *** * For further information, please contact: GCAP
UN Millennium Campaign
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