2006/09/18
LETTER TO IMF-WB AUTHORITIES FROM SOCIAL WATCH COORDINATOR
Given the serious erosion of the credibility of your organizations that the non-compliance with the host-country agreement implies, I am convinced that you should consider postponing the whole event and moving it to a more convenient location.

2006/09/16
Bank slams Singapore crackdown
WORLD Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has criticized Singapore's restrictions on the entry of activists for the World Bank-International Monetary Fund meetings, describing the clampdown as authoritarian.

2006/09/15
Singapore to admit activists after stinging World Bank criticism
Singapore on Friday backed down on its reluctance to admit some activists accredited for World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, saying 22 of the 27 would now be allowed entry.

2006/09/01
ANNOUNCEMENT: Linking & Learning Programme on ESCR for Latin America - Call for Applications
CDES, COHRE, Dignity International, Equipo Pueblo y Social Watch are pleased to announce that the application procedure to the second Linking & Learning Programme on ESC Rights for the Latin America Region that will take place in Quito, Ecuador, from 2 to 10 November 2006 is now open. A limited number of full and partial scholarships can be made available.

2006/08/29
Letter from the Lebanese CSO Gathering for Life to the General Secretary of the United Nations
A group of Lebanese CSOs will deliver to Kofi Annan, UN General Secretary, a letter during his visit to Lebanon and the region.

2006/08/27
Gov't urged to invest more in millennium goals
Professor Leonor M. Briones, Social Watch Philippine co-convener and chairman of the Silliman University Board of Trustees posed the question in her book "Moving Forward with the Millennium Development Goals: May Pera Pa ba?"

2006/08/26
Parliamentary Profligacy. fe’s weekly snapshot from busy blogs
According to a report prepared by the National Social Watch Coalition, titled ‘Citizens Report on Development and Governance—2006,’ India’s current Parliamentary expenditure is Rs 72 lakh per day.

2006/08/23
Evidence indicates deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure
Amnesty International published findings that point to an Israeli policy of deliberate destruction of Lebanese civilian infrastructure, which included war crimes, during the recent conflict.

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.

2006/08/02
Stop Killing
Let us imagine that we are having tea on a sunny day with our neighbours.