2006/11/09
Kofi Annan condemns finances flowing from South to North
Montevideo, November 5 -- "We all hoped globalization would bring us closer together; yet in some respects, it has driven us further apart", said UN secretary general Kofi Annan in his speech to the Ibeoramerican Summit that ended Sunday in Montevideo.

2006/11/05
IBERO-AMERICA: Remittances No Substitute for Sound Development Policies
MONTEVIDEO, Nov 5 (IPS) - Immigrants have a right to send remittances to their families in their countries of origin, and this fast-growing flow of funds must not be seen as a replacement for foreign development aid, according to the final declaration signed by the leaders meeting this weekend in the Ibero-American summit in Uruguay.

2006/10/20
Launching of the Sixth German Social Watch Report
Bonn, 16 October 2006: In the past fifteen years, nearly one in every four countries has seen a decline in the quality of social services like education and health.

2006/10/01
Third Social Watch General Assembly
The III General Assembly of Social Watch was organized in Sofia, Bulgaria from the 23th to the 26th September 2006. The Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation/BGRF hosted the Assembly and received more than 100 participants from the entire world. The Assembly assessed Social Watch collective work so far, decided on future strategies and elected a new Coordinating Committee.

2006/09/26
Global tech imbalance causes new inequalities
Imbalanced access to communication technologies has generated new inequalities, according to Social Watch, a coalition of 400 NGOs in 60 countries.

2006/09/19
Social Watch Report 2006 Launch in Singapore at the Annual Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank
The Social Watch Annual Report “Impossible Architecture” was launched on September 19th in Singapore. The Annual Report monitors governments’ public policy to determine their degree of compliance with commitments and treaties to eradicate poverty and achieve gender equity that they have signed.

2006/09/19
World Bank Profits From Poor Countries - Report
SINGAPORE, Sep 19 (IPS) - The World Bank receives more from developing countries than what it disburses to them says a new report released Tuesday as finance ministers endorsed a controversial new Bank plan to tackle corruption in developing countries.

2006/09/18
LETTER TO IMF-WB AUTHORITIES FROM SOCIAL WATCH COORDINATOR
Given the serious erosion of the credibility of your organizations that the non-compliance with the host-country agreement implies, I am convinced that you should consider postponing the whole event and moving it to a more convenient location.

2006/09/16
Bank slams Singapore crackdown
WORLD Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has criticized Singapore's restrictions on the entry of activists for the World Bank-International Monetary Fund meetings, describing the clampdown as authoritarian.

2006/09/15
Singapore to admit activists after stinging World Bank criticism
Singapore on Friday backed down on its reluctance to admit some activists accredited for World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, saying 22 of the 27 would now be allowed entry.