2004/07/28
The 2004 Social Watch report was launched in Quito
The 2004 Social Watch report titled "Miedos y miserias. Obstáculos a la seguridad humana” was launched at the FSA on July 28. Salil Shetty, director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, Roberto Bissio, coordinator of Social Watch, Karina Batthyány, Social Sciences Head Researcher, and Iara Pietricovsky, from INESC/Social Watch Brazil, were present at the event.

2004/07/02
Zambia: Finance Minister debates Social Watch findings
The launching of the Social Watch report 2004 in Zambia sparked a nation-wide discussion on poverty in the country. Finance Minister Ngandu Magande argued there is now plenty of food in the country and even stone crushers have bank accounts and questioned the accuracy of the Social Watch indicators. In an editorial comment, the influential Zambian daily "The Post" advised the minister "to look at his own government's statistics on poverty produced by the Central Statistical Office" and argued that "the issues raised in the 2004 Social Watch report are true and deserve our government's and indeed all our politicians' most serious considerations".

2004/07/02
German Social Watch Report 2004 launched in Berlin
The German edition of the 2004 Social Watch Report was launched at a press conference in Berlin on July 1, 2004.

2004/07/02
The EU’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goals launched in Brussels
The The EU’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goals, special focus: HIV/AIDS, a report by Alliance2015 was launched at a press conference in Brussels on July 1, 2004.

2004/07/02
Development: EU policy is
BRUSSELS, Jul 1 (IPS) - The European Union development policy is ”inadequately geared” towards the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, according to a new report released Thursday.

2004/07/01
UK: The poor are getting poorer
One fourth of the British households are poor and the north-south divide is getting wider, claim British researchers.

2004/06/29
Brazil: at least 6.5 million people live in favelas
Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing highlighted that the very serious situation in Brazil with respect to homelessness, landlessness, housing deficit and housing inadequacy results from the historic discrimination against the black community and indigenous people, and the marginalization of the poor.

2004/06/20
World Bank says MDGs could be
PARIS, Jun 17 (IPS) -- A focus on the Millennium Development Goals can be counterproductive, a senior World Bank economist told IPS in an interview last Thursday.

2004/05/06
Millennium Summit follow-up: UN convenes High Level meeting in New York in 2005
The UN General Assembly (GA) convened this morning and adopted a resolution deciding to convene a High Level Meeting in New York in 2005 as a follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit in 2000.

2004/05/04
Fear and Want. Obstacles to Human Security: 2004 Social Watch report was launched in New York
Social Watch Report 2004 was launched in a press conference that was broadcasted through the Internet last April 26th.