The world is now two thirds of the way to its self-imposed deadline of fulfilling the Millennium Promise.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit in September 2010 to boost efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Coming amid mixed progress toward the Goals and new crises that threaten the global effort to halve extreme poverty, “the summit will be a crucially important opportunity to redouble our efforts to meet the Goals,” he said, referring to the targets adopted at the UN Millennium Summit of 2000, aimed at slashing poverty, hunger, disease, maternal and child deaths and other ills by a 2015 deadline.

This time the "Stand Up 2010" mobilization will take place over three days beginning Friday September 17th till Sunday 19th with a specific audience in mind - the leaders of the world.

You can find out more at StandAgainstPoverty.org which is now planning the next Stand Up Take Action event. This time though there is an opportunity to have a direct impact on our global policy makers.

When world leaders gather at the United Nations for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Review Summit in September, the voices of their citizens will follow them, telling them, loudly and clearly: "We will no longer stay seated or silent in the face of poverty and the broken promises to end it!'