2006/09/01
ANNOUNCEMENT: Linking & Learning Programme on ESCR for Latin America - Call for Applications
CDES, COHRE, Dignity International, Equipo Pueblo y Social Watch are pleased to announce that the application procedure to the second Linking & Learning Programme on ESC Rights for the Latin America Region that will take place in Quito, Ecuador, from 2 to 10 November 2006 is now open. A limited number of full and partial scholarships can be made available.

2006/08/29
Letter from the Lebanese CSO Gathering for Life to the General Secretary of the United Nations
A group of Lebanese CSOs will deliver to Kofi Annan, UN General Secretary, a letter during his visit to Lebanon and the region.

2006/08/27
Gov't urged to invest more in millennium goals
Professor Leonor M. Briones, Social Watch Philippine co-convener and chairman of the Silliman University Board of Trustees posed the question in her book "Moving Forward with the Millennium Development Goals: May Pera Pa ba?"

2006/08/26
Parliamentary Profligacy. fe’s weekly snapshot from busy blogs
According to a report prepared by the National Social Watch Coalition, titled ‘Citizens Report on Development and Governance—2006,’ India’s current Parliamentary expenditure is Rs 72 lakh per day.

2006/08/23
Evidence indicates deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure
Amnesty International published findings that point to an Israeli policy of deliberate destruction of Lebanese civilian infrastructure, which included war crimes, during the recent conflict.

2006/08/22
STOP THE WAR ON LEBANON!
Civil society groups from around the world are increasingly raising their voices for an immediate cease-fire. The Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), the regional focal point of Social Watch in the Arab world, has issued from Beirut the following updates on the situation.

2006/08/02
Stop Killing
Let us imagine that we are having tea on a sunny day with our neighbours.

2006/07/30
Calls upon its friends and supporters all around the world
Today, July 30th, another massacre was committed in Lebanon: More than sixty civilians, among them 37 children, were killed by Israeli bombs while they were sleeping in shelters in the village of Qana. They died not very far away from the mass grave holding the bodies of 106 civilians burned by a previous Israeli attack in April 1996 inside a shelter provided by a UN battalion.

2006/07/29
Israel Responsible for Qana Attack - Indiscriminate Bombing in Lebanon a War Crime
Press release issued by Human Rights Watch on July 30, 2006. It calls on the UN to establish an international commission of inquiry and states that Israel’s consistent failure to distinguish combatants and civilians is a war crime. Please note that we will be releasing an extensive report documenting civilian casualties in Lebanon from IDF attacks over the first two week's of the conflict this Tuesday or Wednesday.

2006/07/26
Canada, your government and the Middle East today