Within a 24-hour period on October 17 2007, millions of people around
the globe will physically and symbolically "STAND UP" to communicate
their desire to fight poverty and to hold their governments and
leaders accountable for promises to end poverty by 2015.

STAND UP coincides with the International Day of Poverty Eradication
and the White Band Day of the Global Call to Action against Poverty.
It relies fully on citizen participation. Last year, more than 23
million people in 87 countries stood up and took action.

To ensure the inclusion of those not physically able to stand up, a
symbolic act of raising a hand, wearing a white band, or holding up a
banner with the "Stand Up Against Poverty" message will also be
counted.

7 July 2007 marked the half way point to achieve the MDGs. As the
information on the following pages show, there is a lot of progress
still to be made if we are to achieve the promise of these goals.

IYPF and the Millennium Campaign hope to have a strong political
impact reminding our leaders of their promise and telling them that
the world has stood up to publicly demand poverty eradication. The
achievement of the Millennium Development Goals should be regarded as
a political priority. There are no excuses for not achieving them by
2015.

To this end, the IYPF is calling on you to organise or join an
informal local, national or regional IYPF meetings of 2+ people as
part of Stand Up on (or around) October 17. At the event, the Stand
Up pledge will be read and discussions facilitated on how young
professionals can help to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs). Organisers are asked to write up the discussions, a brief
report on the event and send it to the IYPS 2008 (www.iyps.org) team,
along with at least one digital photo. Our team will compile an
overall report to send to the Millennium Campaign. We will also the
report at IYPS 2008 to ensure more views are head during the event.
The pictures, event information and selected quotes will also be
incorporated in to future IYPF newsletters and on our website.

See a list of events already being planned here:
www.iyps.org/iyps08/regional_local_events.htm.

Stand Up for 1.1 billion people living on less than $1 a day.
Speak Out for the Millennium Development Goals.
Take an Action to make world leaders listen
Stand Up and be counted
Stand Up and be heard

If you decided to take a positive action and need more info about how
to organise an IYPF Stand Up Event, Contact Eddy Nicholas Ombudo
Orinda - MDG Coordinator (IYPS 2008) via eddyorinda@iypf.org.

Also, the Millennium Campaign has prepared an "Event in A Box"
containing useful information, tips and STAND UP materials which will
be available to download from the website www.millenniumcampaign.org.
The pack includes a flyer, brochure and set of logos to download.
These materials can be adapted and used for your event to produce
posters, banners, t-shirts, fliers, placards, etc.