2005/09/16
Millennium Goals: 'A Miserable Performance,' Mbeki Scolds UN Summit
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 16 (IPS) - The United Nations World Summit 2005, originally billed as a review of progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the world body in 2000, saw a discontented South African President Thabo Mbeki, who described poverty-fighting efforts towards those goals as "half- hearted, timid and tepid."

2005/09/16
Launching of the Social Watch Report in Ghana
Accra, Sept. 16, GNA - The Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS), the country's economic framework, has been less successful in alleviating poverty since its introduction some three years ago. There has also been insufficient attention paid to the situation of women in politics and their role in economic activity, the Ghana Social Watch Coalition said in a report launched in Accra on Friday. The report is contained in this year's 2005 Global Social Watch Report on the theme, "Roars and Whispers, Gender and Poverty, Promises versus Actions".

2005/09/14
Millennium Goals: Poverty is not a statistic
MONTEVIDEO, Sep 14 (IPS) - Fighting poverty requires, among other things, tools for measuring the phenomenon in all its complexity. Poverty cannot be defined by having an income of one or two dollars a day, nor is there any advantage in distinguishing the very poor from the "almost" very poor, says the annual report by Social Watch, a global coalition of around 400 citizens' groups and non-governmental organisations from more than 50 countries.

2005/09/06
Asian People’s Summit Against Poverty
Over 12,000 people from different parts of the India, along with representatives from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines and Malaysia, assembled at the People's Summit Against Poverty (PSAP) in Delhi, to express solidarity and to hold the governments accountable for promises made to the people in various national and international conventions.

2005/08/09
People’s involvement must to achieve MDGs
Speakers at a seminar here on Tuesday said the dynamism of common people achieved during last two decades in the country will help achieve Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations.

2005/08/03
Ministers urged to deal with regional issues
Activists from some Asian countries began a two-day discussion on Monday ahead of the Regional Ministerial Meeting on Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in Asia and the Pacific, which is scheduled to commence on Wednesday here, in the hope of pressing state leaders to produce concrete policies.

2005/07/25
NGOs review India's progress on MDGs
New Delhi: It is now over a year since the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government took over the reigns in India in May 2004. As part of the action to ensure that the Government delivers on promises made, civil society organizations in India undertook a detailed review of the Common Minimum Program (CMP).

2005/04/12
Social protection network
In 2000, the civil society international network “Social Watch” submitted its first evaluation of the World Summit for Social Development 1995-2000. On such occasion the recommendation was “to create social protection networks” with the participation of the different sectors for the purpose of contributing to the eradication of poverty.

2005/03/03
Press Conference on Women's Global Monitoring Report
Governments worldwide had adopted a piecemeal and incremental approach to implementation of the Beijing Platform of Action that could not achieve the economic, social and political transformation underlying the Platform's promises and vision. As a result, many women in all regions of the world were actually worse off now than they were ten years ago, June Zeitlin, Executive Director, Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) told correspondents this morning during a Headquarters press conference.

2004/11/30
Poor black young people are victims of violence in Brazil
BRASILIA, Brazil - Poor and black young people are the main victims of violence in Brazil, with a rate of 27.8 killings per 100,000 inhabitants in 2001, which “places Brazil among the most violent countries in the world”, claims the NGO Social Watch.