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The Social Watch reports on the ten commitments of the World Summit for Social Development ( -  enabling environment  -  poverty eradication  -  full employment  -  social integration  -  gender equality and equity  -  universal access to education and health care  -  development of Africa and LDC  -  structural adjustment  -  resources for social development  -  international cooperation  -  ) and the critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action.


 

 

1 . To create an economic, political, social, cultural and legal environment that will enable people to achieve social development.

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After the tsunami: rebuilding for tourists
Sarath Fernando/ Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform/ 2005
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Overview: Unkept promises
2005
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Overview: Unkept promises
2005
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Poverty and globalization
2005
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Poverty and globalization
2005
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Water needs the protection of international law
Rosmarie Bär/ Alliance Sud - Swiss Alliance of Development Organisations/ 2005
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Obstacles to human security Analysis of the 2004 Social Watch national reports
Karina Batthyány/ 2004
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Forging a Global Partnership for Development: Some critical issues
Martin Khor/ 2003
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Public services at risk: GATS and the privatisation agenda
Citizens’ Network on Essential Services/ 2003
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Illuminating the dark corners of the financial system
Marina Ponti; Federica Biondi/ Mani Tese/ 2002
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Just as in Kosovo
Ann Pettifor/ Jubilee Plus/ 2001
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Liberalisation of financial markets: is everybody enjoying the game?
Marina Ponti; Davide Zanoni/ Mani Tese; University of Castellanza-LIUC/ 2001
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North-South Co-Operation at a Crossroads: High-Level Event on Financing for Development In 2002
Jens Martens
/ WEED/ 
2001
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Capital controls in Malaysia
Martin Khor/ 2000
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Globalisation and extremism: a call for a more moderate approach
Ann Pettifor
/ Jubilee 2000 Coalition/ 
2000
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The economic necessity of social justice
Nicola Bullard
1999
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Why Finance Matters for the Common Good?
Paul H. Dembinski; Marina Ponti/ 1999

 

2 . To eradicate poverty in the world, through decisive national actions and international cooperation, as an ethical, social, political and economic imperative of humankind.

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Global tax evasion
Mike Lewis/ Tax Justice Network/ 2006
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Migrant worker remittances: a way out of poverty?
Carlos Heredia [1]2006
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What if developing countries could finance poverty eradication from their own public resources?
Jens Martens [1]/ Global Policy Forum Europe/ 2006
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Some comments on country-to-country poverty comparisons
Andrea Vigorito/ 2003
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Building ownership of antipoverty strategies
Rob Mills; Lollo Darin-Ericson/ European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD)/ 2002
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Eradication of poverty in the world: an assessment on the threshold of the year 2000
Constanza Moreira/ 1999
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Strategies in the struggle against poverty, a comparative approach
Constanza Moreira/ 1998
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Still dying while growing and giving birth
1997
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The dimensions of poverty
1997
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The year has gone but poverty remains
Fr. Luis Pérez Aguirre/ SERPAJ (Servicio Paz y Justicia)/ 1997

 

3 . To promote the goal of full employment as a basic priority of our economic and social policies

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Violations of Trade Union Rights
Kathryn Hodder/ ICFTU/ 2000
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Synopsis of a changing map: employment in the world
1999
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Women labour in the world. What about the commitment?
Jessica Stern/ 1999

 

4 . To promote social integration by fostering societies that are stable, safe and just and that are based on the promotion and protection of all human rights.

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Privatising human rights - the impact of globalisation on access to adequate housing, water and sanitation
Miloon Kothari/ 2003
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A summit against intolerance
Atila Roque/ IBASE/ 2002
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Human Rights Seminar during UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Social Development
2000
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Civil Society and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Isabell Kempf/ 1998

 

5 . To promote full respect for human dignity and to achieving equality and equity between women and men, and to recognizing and enhancing the participation and leadership roles of women in political, civil, economic, social and cultural life and in development.

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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in the World
2005
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Gender and poverty: a case of entwined inequalities
2005
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What the social development indicators say
Social Watch Research Team/ 2005
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No human security without gender equality
June Zeitlin; Doris Mpoumou/ Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
2004
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The most unequal of the unequal
Amanda Cecilia Muñoz Moreno; Norma Enríquez Riascos
/ Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM)/ 
2004
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Women’s agency in the midst of crises
Marina Fe B Durano/ Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)/ 2004
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The marketisation of social reproduction in the new service-led economy
Marina Fe B. Durano/ Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)/ 2003
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The Monterrey Consensus: consolidate globalisation at the expense of women
Marina Fe B. Durano/ Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)/ 2002
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Women push their development demands on the financing front
June Zeitlin; Nadia Johnson/ Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)/ 2002
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In the Beijing+5 trenches
Sonia Corrêa; Gita Sen/ Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)/ 2001
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Micro answers do not solve macro problems
Susana Chiarotti/ CLADEM - Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of the Rights of Women/ 2000
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New families for a new century?
Irma Arriagada/ 2000
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The Asian Crisis: Globalization and Patriarchy in Symbiosis
Gita Sen; Josefa (Gigi) Francisco/ DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era)/ 2000
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The creation of the Gender ICC in Latin America
2000
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Advancing towards a gender FCI in Latin America
1999
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Globalization of sex trade
Tammy Quintanilla/ CLADEM (Comité de Latinoamérica y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer)/ 1997
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Latin American women at the end of the century: family and work
Irma Arriagada/ 1997

 

6 . To promote and attain the goals of universal and equitable access to quality education, the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and the access of all to primary health care.

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Stopping mass murder: action against aids
John W Foster/ North-South Institute/ 2004
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From social contract to private contracts: The privatisation of health, education and basic infrastructure - A review of the 2003 Social Watch country reports
Tim Kessler/ Citizens' Network on Essential Services/ 2003
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A Global Action Plan for Education
Ingrid van Tienhoven/ Novib; Oxfam International/ 2000

 

7 . To accelerate the economic, social and human resource development of Africa and the least developed countries.

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Lomé Convention vs. Social Summit?
Tetteh Hormeku/ Third World Network, Africa Secretariat/ 1998
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The AfDB against the Social Summit
Tetteh Hormeku/ Third World Network, Africa Secretariat/ 1998

 

8 . To ensure that when structural adjustment programmes are agreed to they include social development goals, in particular eradicating poverty, promoting full and productive employment, and enhancing social integration.

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Forever in your debt?
Alex Wilks [1]
Francesco Oddone/ European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD)/ 
2006
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Judge and jury: the World Bank’s scorecard for borrowing governments
Nancy Alexander/ Citizens’ Network on Essential Services/ 2004
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Adjustment debate leaves World Bank behind
SAPRIN/ 2000
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Structural adjustment review: a civil society perspective
SAPRIN Secretariat
1999
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Women is eyes on the World Bank
Laura Frade/ 1997

 

9 . To increase significantly and/or to utilize more efficiently the resources allocated to social development.

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Beyond consultation: innovative sources
John W. Foster [1]/ North South Institute/ 2006
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Decentralization and sovereignty: how policy space is eroded
Nancy Alexander[1]/ Citizens’ Network on Essential Services/ 2006
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Exposing the myth and plugging the leaks
Sony Kapoor[1]2006
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From Monterrey to Basel: who rules the banks?
Jan Kregel [1]2006
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International taxation: the time is ripe
Peter Wahl [1]2006
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Latin America: debt, investment, capital flight
Iara Pietricovsky [1]2006
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Multilateral financial institutions: overhauling development finance
Yilmaz Akyüz [1]2006
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Reclaiming development: streamline the Bretton Woods institutions
Celine Tan [1]/ Third World Network/ 2006
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The Arab region: at the crossroad of development security and human rights
Ziad Abdel Samad
Kinda Mohamadieh [1]/ Arab NGO Network for Development/ 
2006
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Recommendations
2005
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Recommendations
2005
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The use of international financial markets to fulfil the MDGs: part of the problem or possible solution?
Andrea Baranes/ Fondazione Culturale di Banca Etica/ 2005
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Tax evasion: hidden billions for development
Bruno Gurtner/ Swiss Coalition of Development Organizations/ 2004
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Reality of Aid 2000
Reality of Aid/ 2000
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The 20/20 Initiative and the Hanoi Consensus
Caroline Wildeman/ Novib/ 1999
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20/20 is a springboard
Caroline Wildeman/ NOVIB. Dutch agency of Development Cooperation/ 1997

 

10 . To improve and strengthen the framework for international, regional and subregional cooperation for social development.

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The new aid modalities for MDG financing: will the European Union keep its promises?
Simon Stocker[1]
Mirjam van Reisen/ Eurostep
Europe External Policy Advisors (EEPA)/ 
2006
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European Union security concerns vs. human security aspirations
Mirjam van Reisen, Simon Stocker, Florent Sebban/ European Solidarity Towards Equal Participation of People (Eurostep);
Europe External Policy Advisors (EEPA)/ 
2004
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The linkages between international, national and human security
Ziad Abdel Samad/ Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)/ 2004
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Europe for business or Europe for its people? The European Union and the GATS
Mirjam van Reisen/ EUROSTEP/ 2003
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Globalisation and trade: challenges for the Arab World
Ziad Abdel Samad/ Arab NGO Network for Development./ 2003
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The European Union's contribution to the Millennium Development Goals
Simon Stocker/ EUROSTEP/ 2002
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Is Another World Possible?
Virginia Vargas/ 2001
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The Cotonou Agreement
Tetteh Hormeku; Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah/ Third World Network-Africa
2001
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The Cotonou Agreement: a gateway for civil society engagement in development co-operation?
Guggi Laryea/ EUROSTEP/ 2001
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World Social Forum: Something new was born in Porto Alegre
Cándido Grzybowski/ 2001
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Development in the Arab World and the Role of the Arab NGOs
Hassan Krayem; Adib Nehme; Ezzat Abdul Hadi/ The Arab NGO Network for Development/ 2000
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Inconsistency in the European Union External Social Policy
Caroline de la Porte; Mirjam van Reisen/ EUROSTEP/ 2000
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The challenge of regional integration and sustainable human development
Lic. Felipe Rivas; Dr. Carlos Alemán/ 2000
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Needs for global financial regulation
Martin Khor/ 1999
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Political partnership with the European Union: an analysis
Mirjam van Reisen; Guggi Laryea/ EUROSTEP/ 1999
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Integrating principles of social development
Guggi Laryea; Mirjam Van Reisen/ Eurostep/ 1998
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European Union: Unemployment and Poverty
Greetje Lubbin/ NOVIB/ 1996
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The EU follow up to the last UN World Summits
Mirjam van Reisen/ EUROSTEP/ 1996

 



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