StandUp-End Poverty Now!!

From HIT Lab NZ

HIT Lab NZ staff and students participated in a “StandUp” event on 16 October to help stop world poverty. The event is about asking the world’s leaders to act on the commitments (Millennium Development Goals) they have made to stop world poverty.

This event will happen annually and this year we are trying to break another Guinness book record by "StandUp” events so that we can remind the politicians to:

• Act now to achieve and exceed the Millennium Development Goals.
• Commit to addressing climate change, furthering education in developing countries.

Event website: http://standagainstpoverty.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4u_qw3wXa4

Retrived from http://standagainstpoverty.org/about

For the fourth year in a row, millions of people around the world will “Stand Up and Take Action” to demand that world leaders end poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The MDGs offer us a roadmap to end poverty and its root causes. In September 2000, 189 world leaders adopted the MDGs as part of the Millennium Declaration, agreed to at the United Nations Millennium Summit. (LEARN MORE) The MDG's set an unprecedented global framework for development that is a crucial step towards ending poverty and inequality by 2015. The eight MDG goals include:

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDs, malaria, and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development