2004/04/27
Poverty is the source of citizen insecurity in Latin America
A report by NGO Social Watch says that insecurity in the region is caused by poverty, rather than wars or political violence.

2004/04/27
International Report slams Philippines over Mindanao
ILOILO CITY, April 26 (IslamOnline.net) – An international network of non-governmental organizations lambasted in its annual report released Monday, April 26, the Filipino government over its failure to end the decades-old crisis in Mindanao. "As long as the government talks peace but makes war, and as long as the economic model does not recognize the need to battle against inequality and poverty, human security will remain a remote possibility," said Social Watch.

2004/04/23
Fear and Want. Obstacles to Human Security: 2004 Social Watch report will be launched in New York
“Frustrating the hopes of peoples and nations all around the globe will certainly not help make the world a more secure place for our children” concludes the Social Watch report 2004, summarizing the findings of citizen coalitions in 50 countries, poor and rich, about what they see as main obstacles to human security.

2004/04/22
Fear and Want. Obstacles to Human Security: 2004 Social Watch report was launched in Washington
Previous to the official launching of the Social Watch 2004 report in New York, authors of the report discussed its conclusions in Washington with advocacy NGOs involved in campaigning around trade and financial issues.

2004/04/13
A new approach to poverty. Why are some people rich?
Rio de Janeiro, April 13. After decades of focusing on poverty in the search for ways to fight the enormous rich-poor gap in Brazil, researchers are now turning their gaze towards the wealthy.

2004/03/30
Social Watch demands ambitious goals for Uruguay
Montevideo, 30 April 2004 - Today the commitment made by the Uruguayan Government to work together with civil society to define social development goals based on the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals was reaffirmed by Ariel Davrieux, Head of the Planning and Budget Ministry, during the ceremony at which UN representatives formally presented the Uruguayan Government and civil society with the results of the consultation process around these goals that took place between October 2003 and March 2004.

2004/03/15
“Coordinadora Civil” from Nicaragua denounces serious irregularities in the national budget
“Coordinadora Civil” from Nicaragua, the national Social Watch focal point, denounces serious irregularities in the national budget before public authorities and international financial institutions.

2004/02/19
Social Watch El Salvador launches campaign
In the struggle to reduce high indicators that prevent social development, Social Watch El Salvador launched the “No excuses 2015” campaign advocating the Millennium Development Goals undertaken by the Salvadoran government in the United Nations in 2000.

2004/01/28
Pick your crisis
There is now general agreement that the Philippines needs to come to grips with the fiscal deficit and the debt problem. Whether it is a fiscal problem or a fiscal crisis, the fact remains that the deficit remains unmanageable while the public debt is now calculated to be 80 percent of the GNP. In the meantime, the Philippines still has very high poverty levels and is hard put to raise additional resources for the Millennium Development Goals.

2004/01/19
Mother of Protest Meets Targets Uncle Sam
Leonor Briones, coordinator of Social Watch Asia and professor at the University of the Philippines was more concerned over the lack of involvement of the poor at large in the privatisation process. She pointed out that the ongoing privatisation was being actively pursued by the multilateral agencies with a message: either privatise or die. The global experience has proved that only a handful were the beneficiaries of the much debated privatisation, she said.