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.

2006/07/30
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.

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

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.

2006/06/08
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.

2006/05/09
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.

2006/04/04
Joint Declaration of the Movements in Defense of Water on occasion of the 4th World Water Forum
March 16-22, Mexico City. One and a half billion people across the world lack drinking water and another two billion lack clean water generally. In 20 years' time these numbers will have doubled. Agricultural and industrial pollution is degrading the quality of fresh water supplies everywhere.

Yet the biggest threat to universal access to clean water and adequate sanitation is not mother nature but corporate globalization.

2006/03/15
International Forum in the Defense of Water
As part of the Rallies in the Defense of Water, COMDA, together with international organizations, is organizing the International Forum in the Defense of Water from the 17th to the 19th of March in the Sindicato de Telefonistas de la República Mexicana (Villalongín 50, Col. Cuauhtémoc).