2006/02/08
Social Watch Coordinator at the Commission on Social Development
Mr. Roberto Bissio, Social Watch Coordinator (Uruguay); Ms. Nancy Barry, President of Women's World Banking (New York); and Professor Sanjay Reddy of Barnard College, Columbia University, participated in a press conference on poverty eradication, marking the opening of the session of the Commission on Social Development (8-17 February).
8 February 2006, Room S-226

2006/01/29
Social Watch in the World Social Forum 2006
The Polycentric World Social Forum 2006 will be held in Bamako (Malí) and in Caracas (Venezuela) in January 2006. The WSF in Karachi (Pakistan) was postponed.

Social Watch will hold the following activities in the II Foro Social de las Américas and VI Polycentric World Social Forum to be held in Caracas, Venezuela, from January 24 to 29, 2006.

2006/01/19
Citizen's Report on Governance and Development 2006
The Citizen’s Report on Governance and Development 2006 was launched on January 19th, 2006 at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

2005/12/20
Report of the Linking & Learning Programme on ESC Rights for the Latin America region
More than 25 civil society organisations from Latin America participated in the programme on economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) organised by Social Watch and Dignity International and held in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay from 7 to 15 November 2005.

2005/12/16
NGOs CALL RICH COUNTRIES TO STOP IMPOSING EXTREME DEMANDS AT THE WTO SIXTH MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
Several NGOs attending the Hong Kong Ministerial are taking the initiative of a joint NGO statement expressing our concerns about the negotiations in which the developed countries are intent on piling pressure on developing countries to accept extreme liberalization policies. The current proposals of developed countries particularly on NAMA, Services and Agriculture, do not have development content and are in fact anti-developmental.

2005/11/24
The Development Agenda after the 2005 Millennium+5 Summit - a checklist of uncompleted tasks
Jens Martens (Global Policy Forum Europe, Germany) explores which topics will define the development agenda in the coming years and where public pressure and critical monitoring by civil society is particularly necessary.

2005/11/15
Latin America united in defence of the rights
More than 25 civil society organisations from Latin America participated in the programme on economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) organised by Social Watch and Dignity International and held in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay from 7 to 15 November 2005.

2005/10/21
German Social Watch report 2005 launched
Endorsed by 28 organizations, the German Social Watch Report 2005 was launched in Bonn last October 21.

2005/10/04
Torturing the Poor
Geneva, 4 October 2005. A recent research project coordinated by the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) with the support of the Geneva International Academic Network (RUIG-GIAN) concludes that individuals are often victims of torture, ill- treatment, forced disappearances and summary executions because they are poor.

2005/09/16
Millennium Goals: 'A Miserable Performance,' Mbeki Scolds UN Summit
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 16 (IPS) - The United Nations World Summit 2005, originally billed as a review of progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the world body in 2000, saw a discontented South African President Thabo Mbeki, who described poverty-fighting efforts towards those goals as "half- hearted, timid and tepid."