2008/12/05
Social Watch Report 2008 Rights is the Answer
Social Watch 2008 report Rights is the Answer was launched Monday at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha, Qatar. NEWW-Polska is the co-author of the chapter relates to Poland.

2008/12/04
The Outcome of Doha: Civil Society Declaration
The members of more than 250 civil society organizations and networks from around the world gather from 25-28 November to debate the multiple crises (energy, food, climate, and finance) currently affecting the planet urge goverments to “take the side of women and men workers, farmers, youth and children” and effect changes that put “effective development, poverty eradication, human rights, gender equality, decent work, and environmental sustainability at the fore.”

2008/12/03
Human rights must guide crisis, report finds
The current financial architecture has ignored human rights triggering spiralling inequity worldwide argues a latest report by an international NGO watchdog. It says that haphazard implementation of policies promoting economic liberalisation have impeded international commitments to end poverty and achieve gender equality.

2008/12/02
Social Watch Report 2008 - La risposta alla crisi attuale sono i diritti umani
An approach based on human rights is the only way to overcome the current crisis, argues a worldwide coalition of civil society organizations.

2008/12/02
Social Watch Report 2008: Rights is the Answer
After the failure of mainstream strategies to combat the unprecedented financial crisis, rising food prices, climate change and growing inequities, the abandoned principles of social justice and a rights-based approach to development are an essential component of any solution, says a new report by Social Watch.

2008/11/28
2nd Press release: Get out of the “woods”!
As one of the lead elements proposed for recommendation to the Financing for Development Review Conference, the Civil Society Forum held in Doha, Qatar, supports an international summit on financial and economic architecture and global economic governance structures, in 2009. The Forum position challenges the both the proposal some governments made that the Bretton Woods Institutions organize an event and the moves to concentrate decision-making in the G-20 group of governments.

2008/11/26
1st Press release: Civil society representatives from the whole world examine the crisis
“Is the United States a ‘failed state’? Its financial mismanagement has triggered a world wide crisis.” Thus, Social Watch coordinator Roberto Bissio challenged some 300 civil society delegates, who met at the Civil Society Forum leading to the Financing for Development Review Conference to address the international crises that threaten our climate, development and social justice, and develop recommendations for the official Conference.

2008/11/18
Vacancy at the Social Watch International Secretariat
POSITION Senior Research Associate
LOCATION The Social Watch International Secretariat is located in Montevideo, Uruguay, and is based at the Third World Institute (ITeM)
DEADLINE December 12, 2008

2008/10/28
URGENT ACTION: sign-on statement on global economic reform summit
A global campaign is being launched by civil society organisations worldwide in order to push the issue of an open and transparent conference convened by the UN to review the international financial and monetary architecture. This implies as well a revision about aims and objectives of the institutions that serve this purpose and their governance. PLEASE, SIGN THE STATEMENT BEFORE NOVEMBER 13th.

2008/09/22
The Basic capabilities index: way too slow!
The Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved by 2015 at the present rate of progress. This is the main conclusion that can be extracted from the 2008 figures of the Basic Capabilities Index (BCI), calculated by Social Watch.