Minsk City Executive Committee

13 October 2009 → Minsk to host Tackling Poverty Together Day 16 October

An annual Tackling Poverty Together international action will take place at the International Labor and Social Relations Institute (ILSRI) in Minsk on 16 October. The action will be held under the aegis of the UN Office in Belarus and is dedicated to the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, BelTA learnt from the promoters of the action.
Taking part in it will be about 200 people, including students of the ILSRI and other Minsk universities. UN/UNDP Representative in Belarus Antonius Broek together with representatives of the Belarusian Trade Unions Federation and the ILSRI will make reports at the opening of the event.
The event will include contests of wall newspapers, photos, videoы, and rhymes about Tackling Poverty Together.
The ILSRI hosted the Tackling Poverty Together and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals action on 17 October last year.
In 2000, heads of 189 countries signed the Millennium Declaration aimed at the eradication of poverty by 2015.
Some 50,000 people die of the poverty consequences every day, and the gap between the rich and poor is constantly growing. About half of the world population lives in poverty. Women comprise 70% of the poor.
In 2006, 23 million people took part in the Tackling Poverty Together global campaign, in 2007, the number was 47 million, and in 2008, some 116 million participated in the actions.
This year the actions are supposed to be shot. The data on the number of the participants, alongside with photos and videos will be collected at the campaign’s headquarters in New-York. The organizers are going to hold the largest action in the world and beat the Guinness record.

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