2009/01/09
Social Watch: Report Indicates that Poverty in Africa May Grow
According to Social Watchs' Annual Report 2008, 80 countries fare badly when examining 3 criteria, measured in the "basic capabilities index": child mortality, number of children completing primary education, and proportion of births attended by skilled personel. Especially in sub-Saharan African countries with recorded strong economic growth in recent years, the economic growth has not been translated into a major drop in poverty levels.

2009/01/09
Social Watch launches its 2008 report in the European Parliament
Social Watch – an international network that monitors poverty eradication and gender equality – emphasised Human Rights as key to eradicating poverty in their most recent report launched yesterday at the European Parliament, in the presence of Luisa Morgantini, Vice-President of the European Parliament.

2009/01/09
Social Watch launches its 2008 report in the European Parliament
Social Watch – an international network that monitors poverty eradication and gender equality – emphasised Human Rights as key to eradicating poverty in their most recent report launched yesterday at the European Parliament, in the presence of Luisa Morgantini, Vice-President of the European Parliament.

2009/01/09
Social Watch launches its 2008 report: 'Rights is the answer'
On Wednesday 7 January in the European Parliament in Brussels, the international NGO network Social Watch launched its new report entitled "Rights is the answer", which argues that human rights provide the answer to the global financial crisis.

2009/01/09
"Afrika kent nog tweehonderd jaar armoede"
Sub-Sahara Afrika zal nog meer dan tweehonderd jaar kraken onder extreme armoede, tenzij er meer ondernomen wordt om de situatie te verbeteren. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de sociale waakhond Social Watch.

2009/01/09
DEVELOPMENT: Africa May Face 'Centuries' of Poverty
BRUSSELS, Jan 8 (IPS) - Extreme poverty will continue to blight sub-Saharan Africa for another 200 years unless action to overcome it is intensified, a new report has suggested.

2009/01/05
Social Watch launched its 2008 report
The unusual combination of financial crisis, food crisis, energy and climate crisis requires a new approach based on human rights, argues the international Social Watch coalition in its 2008 report, launched during the United Nations Conference on Financing for Development. Next December 10, as the report remembers the 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be commemorated and the title of the Social Watch Report 2008 is, precisely, “Rights is the Answer”.

2008/12/10
Social Watch launched its 2008 report: "Rights is the Answer"
The unusual combination of financial crisis, food crisis, energy and climate crisis requires a new approach based on human rights, argues the international Social Watch coalition in its 2008 report, launched during the United Nations Conference on Financing for Development. Next December 10, as the report remembers the 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be commemorated and the title of the Social Watch Report 2008 is, precisely, “Rights is the Answer”.

2008/12/08
Rights is the Answer-- Social Watch Report 2008
The unusual combination of financial crisis, food crisis, energy and climate crisis requires a new approach based on human rights, argues the international Social Watch coalition in its 2008 report, launched today here during the United Nations Conference on Financing for Development. Next December 10, as the report remembers the 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be commemorated and the title of the Social Watch Report 2008 is, precisely, “Rights is the Answer”.

2008/12/08
Social Watch 2008: Rights is the Answer
On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights a new international report concludes that budgets profoundly impact the attainment of human rights, and the attainment of human rights impacts the quality of our lives.