2004/07/02
The EU’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goals launched in Brussels
The The EU’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goals, special focus: HIV/AIDS, a report by Alliance2015 was launched at a press conference in Brussels on July 1, 2004.

2004/07/02
Development: EU policy is
BRUSSELS, Jul 1 (IPS) - The European Union development policy is ”inadequately geared” towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, according to a new report released Thursday.

2004/07/01
UK: The poor are getting poorer
One fourth of the British households are poor and the north-south divide is getting wider, claim British researchers.

2004/06/29
Brazil: at least 6.5 million people live in favelas
Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing highlighted that the very serious situation in Brazil with respect to homelessness, landlessness, housing deficit and housing inadequacy results from the historic discrimination against the black community and indigenous people, and the marginalization of the poor.

2004/06/20
World Bank says MDGs could be
PARIS, Jun 17 (IPS) -- A focus on the Millennium Development Goals can be counterproductive, a senior World Bank economist told IPS in an interview last Thursday.

2004/05/06
Millennium Summit follow-up: UN convenes High Level meeting in New York in 2005
The UN General Assembly (GA) convened this morning and adopted a resolution deciding to convene a High Level Meeting in New York in 2005 as a follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit in 2000.

2004/05/04
Fear and Want. Obstacles to Human Security: 2004 Social Watch report was launched in New York
Social Watch Report 2004 was launched in a press conference that was broadcasted through the Internet last April 26th.

2004/04/27
Poverty is the source of citizen insecurity in Latin America
A report by NGO Social Watch says that insecurity in the region is caused by poverty, rather than wars or political violence.

2004/04/27
International Report slams Philippines over Mindanao
ILOILO CITY, April 26 (IslamOnline.net) – An international network of non-governmental organizations lambasted in its annual report released Monday, April 26, the Filipino government over its failure to end the decades-old crisis in Mindanao. "As long as the government talks peace but makes war, and as long as the economic model does not recognize the need to battle against inequality and poverty, human security will remain a remote possibility," said Social Watch.

2004/04/23
Fear and Want. Obstacles to Human Security: 2004 Social Watch report will be launched in New York
“Frustrating the hopes of peoples and nations all around the globe will certainly not help make the world a more secure place for our children” concludes the Social Watch report 2004, summarizing the findings of citizen coalitions in 50 countries, poor and rich, about what they see as main obstacles to human security.