2004/04/22
Fear and Want. Obstacles to Human Security: 2004 Social Watch report was launched in Washington
Previous to the official launching of the Social Watch 2004 report in New York, authors of the report discussed its conclusions in Washington with advocacy NGOs involved in campaigning around trade and financial issues.

2004/04/13
A new approach to poverty. Why are some people rich?
Rio de Janeiro, April 13. After decades of focusing on poverty in the search for ways to fight the enormous rich-poor gap in Brazil, researchers are now turning their gaze towards the wealthy.

2004/03/30
Social Watch demands ambitious goals for Uruguay
Montevideo, 30 April 2004 - Today the commitment made by the Uruguayan Government to work together with civil society to define social development goals based on the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals was reaffirmed by Ariel Davrieux, Head of the Planning and Budget Ministry, during the ceremony at which UN representatives formally presented the Uruguayan Government and civil society with the results of the consultation process around these goals that took place between October 2003 and March 2004.

2004/03/15
“Coordinadora Civil” from Nicaragua denounces serious irregularities in the national budget
“Coordinadora Civil” from Nicaragua, the national Social Watch focal point, denounces serious irregularities in the national budget before public authorities and international financial institutions.

2004/02/19
Social Watch El Salvador launches campaign
In the struggle to reduce high indicators that prevent social development, Social Watch El Salvador launched the “No excuses 2015” campaign advocating the Millennium Development Goals undertaken by the Salvadoran government in the United Nations in 2000.

2004/01/28
Pick your crisis
There is now general agreement that the Philippines needs to come to grips with the fiscal deficit and the debt problem. Whether it is a fiscal problem or a fiscal crisis, the fact remains that the deficit remains unmanageable while the public debt is now calculated to be 80 percent of the GNP. In the meantime, the Philippines still has very high poverty levels and is hard put to raise additional resources for the Millennium Development Goals.

2004/01/19
Mother of Protest Meets Targets Uncle Sam
Leonor Briones, coordinator of Social Watch Asia and professor at the University of the Philippines was more concerned over the lack of involvement of the poor at large in the privatisation process. She pointed out that the ongoing privatisation was being actively pursued by the multilateral agencies with a message: either privatise or die. The global experience has proved that only a handful were the beneficiaries of the much debated privatisation, she said.

2003/12/04
Brazil non-profits see Lula missing social goals
BRASILIA, Brazil, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula will fail to achieve social goals and expose the nation to future financial shocks if he sticks to orthodox economic policy, Brazilian social groups said on Thursday.

2003/12/04
Launch of the Citizens' Observatory 2003 report,
Citizens’ Observatory/Social Watch and the Commission of External Relations and National Defense of the Senate invite to the launch of the Citizens’ Observatory 2003 report, "População pobre versus mercado", wich will take place at the Federal Senate, Brasilia, on December 4, 9:30 am.

2003/11/18
Dialogues against Racism
On November 18 Ibase organized the IV Dialogues against Racism that brought together forty civil society organizations. Actions that have proven effective in the combat against racial preconception in the country were introduced and ways were discussed to engage institutions, businesses and people in a single permanent coordination.