2006/12/04
Hope amid despair
The devastation wreaked by Typhoon Reming on the hapless residents of Southern Luzon is only one of many natural disasters which occurred in quick succession this year.

We thought Milenyo was the mother of all supertyphoons. It turned out that destructive forces brought by earlier calamities were surpassed by Reming. Extra-strong winds, excessive rainfall, rampaging floods, huge boulders, mudflows, landslides—name it, Reming brought them with unparalleled fury.

2006/11/10
Ghana: Social Watch Report Calls for the Separation of Multilateral And Bilateral Aid
The 2006 Social Watch report has suggested the separation of bilateral and multilateral arrangement for development as a first step towards reforms for financial independence for poor countries.

2006/11/05
IBERO-AMERICA: Remittances No Substitute for Sound Development Policies
MONTEVIDEO, Nov 5 (IPS) - Immigrants have a right to send remittances to their families in their countries of origin, and this fast-growing flow of funds must not be seen as a replacement for foreign development aid, according to the final declaration signed by the leaders meeting this weekend in the Ibero-American summit in Uruguay.

2006/09/26
Global tech imbalance causes new inequalities
Imbalanced access to communication technologies has generated new inequalities, according to Social Watch, a coalition of 400 NGOs in 60 countries.

2006/09/19
World Bank Profits From Poor Countries - Report
SINGAPORE, Sep 19 (IPS) - The World Bank receives more from developing countries than what it disburses to them says a new report released Tuesday as finance ministers endorsed a controversial new Bank plan to tackle corruption in developing countries.

2006/09/16
Bank slams Singapore crackdown
WORLD Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has criticized Singapore's restrictions on the entry of activists for the World Bank-International Monetary Fund meetings, describing the clampdown as authoritarian.

2006/09/15
Singapore to admit activists after stinging World Bank criticism
Singapore on Friday backed down on its reluctance to admit some activists accredited for World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings, saying 22 of the 27 would now be allowed entry.

2006/08/27
Gov't urged to invest more in millennium goals
Professor Leonor M. Briones, Social Watch Philippine co-convener and chairman of the Silliman University Board of Trustees posed the question in her book "Moving Forward with the Millennium Development Goals: May Pera Pa ba?"

2006/08/26
Parliamentary Profligacy. fe’s weekly snapshot from busy blogs
According to a report prepared by the National Social Watch Coalition, titled ‘Citizens Report on Development and Governance—2006,’ India’s current Parliamentary expenditure is Rs 72 lakh per day.

2006/07/20
G8 trade talks 'typical of flawed process'
Last ditch trade talks "typical of flawed process". Rich Countries' efforts during the G8 summit to force through a deal in the beleaguered World Trade Organization talks have been criticised by campaigners for sidelining the world's poorest nations.