In the run up to the event, the Spanish Millennium Campaign facilitated the joint work and participation of the actors linked to the UN working in Catalonia which are the Catalan committee of UNICEF, ACNUR, and UNESCO, and the Spanish United Nations Association. All the UN related entities organized a joint activity focusing on the MDGs as human rights at the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration next December. People were invited to have their picture taken holding one of the MDGs icons as a way to advocate for their fulfilment.
Moreover, the brand new Spanish Millennium Campaign’s Voices Against Poverty Box was installed in a central space in the Park where the event took place and generated much interest from both the citizens and the political and civil society representatives that participated in the event.
The Spanish Millennium Campaign greeted the Vice-President of the Catalan Government, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the Director General for Cooperation and the Deputy Mayor of Barcelona at the Voices Against Poverty Box and invited them to leave a message against poverty and for the MDGs. Numerous other citizens joined them in asking national governments to fulfil their promises and redouble the efforts to achieve the MDGs by 2015.
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