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The Elders' Mary Robinson joined Anti-poverty campaigners yesterday, to announce an astounding 116 million people – nearly two percent of the world's population – mobilized at events in 131 countries on October 17-19 as part of “Stand Up and Take Action.”

October 17th has arrived at the International Date Line, and this years 'Stand Up Take Action' event is underway. Watch this year's official clip for the big event.

While Stand Up is doubtless only a success because of the hundreds of thousands of organizers and millions of participants every year, there is a dedicated team of coordinators working hard to bring all of the global actions together for this massive declaration against poverty and inequality and for the Millennium Development Goals.

In the lead up to this years Stand Up event, over 9,000 bloggers with an estimated readership near 11,000,000 people, are writing posts about poverty today. Bloggers around the world are submitting everything from their written thoughts to pictures, podcasts, and videos as part of Blog Action Day - hoping to spark a global conversation about poverty.

Starting in just 4 days, people around the world will 'Stand Up and Take Action' against poverty and injustice. The Elders' Desmond Tutu has sent out a message of support for participants, "by standing together, you could be the first generation to end one of the great injustices and human rights violations in history - extreme poverty..."

GCAP just released a lineup of events for 'Stand up Take Action'. According to their latest press statement, you can join with what is expected to be more than 67,000,000 people - 1% of the entire planet - to Stand Up and Take Action against poverty and for the Millenium Development Goals on October 17-19.

A slideshow from the 50 Days of Action Against Poverty and Inequality event 'A DAY of VOICES: POVERTY HEARINGS on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)'. The event took place two days before the UN High-Level Event on MDGs in New York, bringing attention to voices of the poor from poverty hearings around the world.

Is it possible that we are not on track to realize the Millennium Development Goals by 2015? An incredible story written by Mirela Xanthaki for IPS News captures some of the outcomes from last week's Poverty Hearings in New York, where GCAP shared some of the latest poverty figures and stories about the people behind the numbers.

Ela Bhatt delivered a call for Decent Work and renewed commitment to uphold human rights and end global poverty at the High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals at the UN on 25 September. We're collecting materials to bring you more detailed coverage of what was a big week for some of the EHHR campaign partners; in meantime, here is a recap from some of our partner's websites.