Stand Up Take Action Brochure for 2009

In 2006, 23 million people stood up, in 2007, 47 million people stood, last year 116 million people Stood Up and Took Action

Why Stand Up and Take Action in 2009?

The MDGs and human rights have common objectives: to preserve and protect human dignity. While there are many different contributors to poverty, injustice and discrimination are omnipresent and always constitute a denial of human rights. It is for this reason that there are extensive direct linkages between human rights provisions and the MDGs. For each Goal there are often corresponding human rights obligations, standards or norms.