MORE THAN ONE PERCENT OF GLOBAL POPULATION EXPECTED TO “STAND UP AND TAKE ACTION” AGAINST POVERTY AND FOR THE MDGs
New York, 8 October 2008 – The United Nations Millennium Campaign and Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) today announced details of some of next week’s events aimed at mobilizing more than one percent of the world’s population— over 67 million people – on October 17-19 to demand that world leaders deliver on their promises to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
ANTI-POVERTY ADVOCATES ATTEMPT TO MOBILIZE ONE PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S PEOPLE TO TELL WORLD LEADERS TO END POVERTY NOW
New York, 2 October 2008 — From October 17th to19th, in an unprecedented mobilization, more than one percent of the world’s population is expected to “Stand Up and Take Action” to demand that their leaders end poverty and meet and exceed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
GCAP representatives of ten countries present in Hokkaido are deeply concern at how out of touch with reality the G8 seemed to be on the main issues related to ending poverty.
GCAP Korea representative, Hykungung Kim was one of a group of international NGOs to meet Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda in Tokyo on Wednesday June 18th. She also tied a white and, the symbol of the campaign, around the wrist of the Prime Minister who stood for a photograph beside the campaign symbol, a Tanabata bamboo tree.
Representing the massive GCAP anti-poverty alliance, Hykungung explained to the Prime Minister how last year we mobilized over 1.2 million Voices Against Poverty which were presented to Chancellor Merkel just prior to the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm.
The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is mobilising worldwide on International Women’s Day to call for gender equality to end poverty. With women representing 70% of the worlds poor, the issue of gender equality in the fight to end poverty has been carried by campaigners to the doors of governments and multilateral instiutions by GCAP coalitions since 2005.
GCAP campaigning to achieve gender equity
GCAP Partners from around the world have been campaigning to achieve equality and end poverty. This slideshow portrays some of that work.
Ana Agostino - The Importance of Women in Ending Poverty
Ana Agostino is Co-Chair of GCAP and the facilitator for the Feminist
Task Force (FTF) . This year the FTF use the International Women’s Day
to highlight the centrality of gender equality to end poverty and the
importance of investing in women and girls. They are also calling for
financing of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Ethiopian activists Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie may face brief additional time behind bars, as the court today sentenced them to two years and six months in prison on charges of incitement, despite demands by the prosecution that they receive the maximum sentence of 10 years.
The case of anti-poverty activists Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie was not heard again as one of the three Judges in Ethiopia’s High Court was absent due to ill health. The case hearing is now postponed until November 30th, leaving Daniel and Netsanet in jail for at least another 8 days, as they were refused bail.
News that the fourth fatality of Tuesday night’s (Nov 13) bomb attack on the Philippines House Representatives was local GCAP Philippines activist Julasiri “Niki” Hayudini, has been met with shock and condemnation worldwide.
Julasiri “Niki” Hayudini, 49, was Vice President of the Assalam Bangsamoro People’s Association, a local non-governmental organization active in the GCAP-Philippines coalition. He was an aide and close friend of Representative Wahab Akbar, who was also killed in the blast.
