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Up one levelHighlights of the October 17 mobilisation
All over the world, individuals will be taking a minute out of their daily routine, and in their homes, offices, shopping centers, gyms, grocery stores, bus stations, and coffee shops, they will stand up for a minute as an individual action against poverty and inequality. Join them today, and Stand Up!
Palestinians stand up against poverty and help break the Guinness World Record!
Nearly 1 million Palestinian adults and children, as part of the Global Campaign Against Poverty, joined more than 42.5 million people around the world on October 17 to take a stand to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
Closing the Human Rights Gap in MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
On this Global Day to Stand up against Poverty” (17 October), we are offering a message and a tool for monitoring our common Millennium Development Goal No. 7. This brief pamphlet explains the background of the MDGs and proposes ways that States, UN agencies and our civil society can use appropriate monitoring indicators make MDG 7 more meaningful and consistent with the simultaneous human rights obligations of State. The Closing the Human Rights Gap in MDG 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability brochure is available at: http://www.hlrn.org/publication_det.php?cat_name=&id=38
Be Counted Now
We need you to STAND UP and SPEAK OUT to make governments honour their commitments on more and better aid, debt cancellation, trade justice, gender equality, public accountability and the Millennium Development Goals. It will not happen without all of us taking a stand.
BUILDING AN ASIAN PEOPLES’ AGENDA ON AID
The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) – Asia invites you to cover a conference on ODA, which aims to review the key trends in ODA flows in Asia and the world, assess the impact of aid across recipient countries and identify the prospects and challenges for both donor and recipient countries.
Health, education, housing get miniscule allocations
Health, education and housing continue to suffer highly inadequate allocations of funds from foreign aid received by the Philippines, this despite the international community’s commitment to prioritize human development components in foreign aid to improve the impact of aid on developing nations.
GCAP representatives debate with IMF and World Bank at the World Social Forum
Officials from the IMF, the World Bank, and the UN, were confronted with some difficult questions as the faced representatives from the GCAP coalition at the World Social Forum in Brazil.
Rights Action Week
Events taking place in Rights Action Week (1-10 December) in support of the Global Call To Action Against Poverty.
“Let’s say no to poverty” in Azerbaijan
Nearly 2000 people attended a festival in Barda, central Azerbaijan, to mark the launch of a national campaign in the country to end poverty.
PMRS Stands Up and Speaks Out on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
The Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) will mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17 by taking part in a series of activities throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip to highlight the issues of poverty and inequality, as part of the worldwide "Stand Up and Speak Out" campaign.