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The World Social Summit in Doha: Time to Act

DOHA, Nov 12 2025 (IPS) - Qatar hosted the Second World Summit for Social Development from 4–6 November. According to the United Nations, more than 40 Heads of State and Government, 230 ministers and senior officials, and nearly...

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“Let’s revive hope”

Intervention by Roberto Bissio, coordinator of Social Watch, at the Opening Session of the Civil Society Forum of the Second World Summit for Social Development
Doha, Qatar, November 5, 2025

Excellencies, friends and...

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Invitation WSSD2: Decent work and Employment Opportunities

Join us in the Solutions Session (Side-Event) "Decent work and employment opportunities: Action-oriented approaches to empower future generations of women and girls" at the second UN World Summit for Social Development, Doha Qatar (November 4-6, 2025)
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Social Watch reports

Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018

Press Release

Table of contents

Download the full report here (pdf version, 3.5 MB), for single chapters see below.

Download the full report in Arabic (pdf version, 2.5 MB).

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Social Watch Report 2014

THEMATIC REPORTS

Prologue: Monitoring is only meaningful if the powerful are held to account Means and Ends: The messages from the country reports Core Principles, Universal Goals Means of Implementation Eradicating poverty by lowering...

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Social Watch Annual Report 2001

Table of contents

Charting progress. Much ado…

Measuring progress

Information poverty

About the methodology

Statistics showing country by country progress toward social development goals  (zip)

Progress and Regressions...

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Social Watch was created in 1995 during the “Social Summit” (World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen) to create a civil society instrument to make governments accountable to their solemn commitments to eradicate poverty, achieve gender equity and reduce inequalities.
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