2006/07/20
G8 trade talks 'typical of flawed process'
Last ditch trade talks "typical of flawed process". Rich Countries' efforts during the G8 summit to force through a deal in the beleaguered World Trade Organization talks have been criticised by campaigners for sidelining the world's poorest nations.

2006/07/16
A Call upon the International and Regional Communities
Say STOP to Israeli War on Lebanon

2006/07/15
A statement from Lebanese Civic Society Associations
A number of Lebanese, Arab and international organizations held a meeting on July 15, 2006 to discuss the current situation in Lebanon.

2006/07/14
Minimum wage hike in New Brunswick is still not enough professor says
On July 1, the minimum wage in New Brunswick increased 20 cents to $6.70 per hour, an adjustment UNB professor Thom Workman calls "political tokenism." "It isn't at all significant, 20 cents doesn't go far enough to turn the minimum wage into a living wage," said Dr. Workman, a political science professor who specializes in Atlantic Canadian wage policy. He thinks living standards for the lower echelons of New Brunswick society have stagnated or even decreased over the past 30 years.

2006/07/13
Canada: Minimum wage is still not enough
A full-time person working for the new minimum wage in New Brunswick earns roughly $13,400 per year before deductions, barely enough to support a single person, let alone a family. On July 1, the minimum wage in New Brunswick increased 20 cents to $6.70 per hour, an adjustment that UNB professor Thom Workman calls "political tokenism.”

2006/06/27
RP debt service totals P721.7 B, study shows
The Philippines is allocating P721.7 billion in debt service, with P340 billion going to the interest and P381 billion meant to pay for the principal amortization. This means an allocation of P1.98 billion per day which is equivalent to the building of 7,920 classrooms or 250 kilometers of roads per day.

2006/06/08
Social Watch Coordinator at the Sherpa-Stakeholder meeting
Mr. Roberto Bissio, Social Watch Coordinator (Uruguay) participated at the Sherpa-Stakeholder meeting -within the process of "Civil G8 2006"- held in Moscow last May 18-19.

2006/06/07
Declaration Lacks the Teeth to Take a Stronger Bite Out of HIV/AIDS
Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the first diagnosed AIDS case in North America, the UN General Assembly assessed progress against the pandemic since the 2001 Special Session on HIV/AIDS in a three-day session May 31-June 1, and issued a political declaration. Negotiations were complex and long-drawn, concluding only on the eve of the final day with the arrival of ministers.

2006/05/09
Mexico submitted the Alternative Report on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights
On May 1st 2006 Areli Sandoval presented at the UN Committee on ESCR in Geneva the Report on behalf of the Promoting Group of the Alternative Report on Economic, Social, Cultural and Enviromental Rights.

2006/05/02
Oral intervention by Areli Sandoval Terán on behalf the Promoting Group of the ESCER
See the document prepared by Areli Sandoval Terán for her oral intervention before the ESCR Committee in Geneva last May 1, 2006.