“We know that investing in children and securing their rights is one of the surest ways to ending poverty. And I know that no one can better speak for young people than you,” Mr. Ban said, inviting his youthful listeners to first crouch and then rise in a symbolic gesture of the UN’s “Stand Up Against Poverty” campaign on the eve of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty".
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used a visit to the United Nations International School in New York on Oct. 16, to rally children in the battle against extreme poverty, a scourge that afflicts over a billion people around the world.
From the website UN News Center.
October 18, 2009
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