campaign against poverty and in support of the MDGs. Last year over 23 million
people participated in simultaneous events held in schools, churches, and
government buildings around the world. This year, organizers are aiming to
break the Guinness World Record with even more participants.
Please join us for a video showing, remarks by staff from the
Bank, UNIC, and Global Call Against Poverty (GCAP), and our
own "stand up" moment.
We will also be handing "white wrist bands" which symbolizes
the fight against poverty.
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Wednesday, October 17
3:00pm
World Bank J Building, J1- 050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
For non bank staff, *RSVP REQUIRED* to infoshopevents@worldbank.org
The event is sponsored by The World Bank's Civil Society Team, the
United Nations' Information Center and the InfoShop
STAND UP is an innovative and exciting challenge to set an official
Guinness World Record - the greatest number of people ever to STAND
UP Against Poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals.Within a
24-hour period, as many people as possible must 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.
The purpose of this action is to raise awareness of the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) and to publicly demonstrate to policy
makers the growing global support for the achievement of the MDGs
and for the strengthening of development policies in both Northern
and Southern countries. On October 17th, be a part of this growing
movement of people who refuse to stay silent or seated in the face
of poverty. Help us break the world record so we can break the
record of broken promises.
For more information, please go to:
http://www.standagainstpoverty.org
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About the Civil Society Team
The global Civil Society Team (CST) is located within External
Affairs, and provides institutional coordination of the Bank?s civil
society engagement work. As such, the CST formulates institutional
strategy, provides advice to senior management, coordinates civil
society engagement staff across the institution, provides guidance
and technical assistance to program staff on how to consult and
involve civil society in Bank operations, undertakes ongoing
outreach efforts to global civil society networks and provides civil
society groups with access to Bank information, personnel, and other
resources.
For more information on the CST and the Bank?s civil society work
visit:
www.worldbank.org/civilsociety
About the InfoShop
The InfoShop is the public information center of the World Bank and
serves as a forum for substantial debate on international
development. Our extensive events program consists of more than 250
events over the past two years and has hosted many internationally
recognized speakers including Queen Noor, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey
Sachs, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Friedman, and Carly
Fiorina. The InfoShop functions as the only publicly accessible
space at headquarters and provides internal and external audiences
with over 15,000 titles published by the World Bank, international
organizations, and other publishers on development issues.
For more information, visit: www.worldbank.org/infoshop
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