2005/09/06
Asian People’s Summit Against Poverty
Over 12,000 people from different parts of the India, along with representatives from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines and Malaysia, assembled at the People's Summit Against Poverty (PSAP) in Delhi, to express solidarity and to hold the governments accountable for promises made to the people in various national and international conventions.

2005/08/09
People’s involvement must to achieve MDGs
Speakers at a seminar here on Tuesday said the dynamism of common people achieved during last two decades in the country will help achieve Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations.

2005/08/03
Ministers urged to deal with regional issues
Activists from some Asian countries began a two-day discussion on Monday ahead of the Regional Ministerial Meeting on Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Asia and the Pacific, which is scheduled to commence on Wednesday here, in the hope of pressing state leaders to produce concrete policies.

2005/07/25
NGOs review India's progress on MDGs
New Delhi: It is now over a year since the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government took over the reigns in India in May 2004. As part of the action to ensure that the Government delivers on promises made, civil society organizations in India undertook a detailed review of the Common Minimum Program (CMP).

2005/04/12
Social protection network
In 2000, the civil society international network “Social Watch” submitted its first evaluation of the World Summit for Social Development 1995-2000. On such occasion the recommendation was “to create social protection networks” with the participation of the different sectors for the purpose of contributing to the eradication of poverty.

2005/03/03
Press Conference on Women's Global Monitoring Report
Governments worldwide had adopted a piecemeal and incremental approach to implementation of the Beijing Platform of Action that could not achieve the economic, social and political transformation underlying the Platform's promises and vision. As a result, many women in all regions of the world were actually worse off now than they were ten years ago, June Zeitlin, Executive Director, Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) told correspondents this morning during a Headquarters press conference.

2004/11/30
Poor black young people are victims of violence in Brazil
BRASILIA, Brazil - Poor and black young people are the main victims of violence in Brazil, with a rate of 27.8 killings per 100,000 inhabitants in 2001, which “places Brazil among the most violent countries in the world”, claims the NGO Social Watch.

2004/11/30
More deaths in Brazil due to violence than in the Middle East
(BRASILIA, 30 Nov, ANSA) - Murders of teenagers in Rio de Janeiro were 8 times higher than those of Palestinians in the Middle East between 1987 and 2001, according to a Social Watch report released in Brazil today, in which the unfair distribution of wealth in the country was also criticized.

2004/11/04
Government to ensure implementation of CMP: Minister
New Delhi, Nov 4 (UNI) The government today reiterated that it would deliver the promises made in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) to make a difference to the lives of the people.

2004/10/20
Funds tighter for basic services, used for debts
Having said earlier that sharp disparities in income and continuing civil strife in parts of the country will make it unlikely for the Philippines to attain its Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Prof. Leonor Briones, coconvenor of the Social Watch Philippines, had more bad news on Tuesday. She said continuing deterioration of basic social services and increasing debt payments would add to the difficulty of reaching the MDG.