Social Watch Report 2008: Rights is the answer

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Rights in the time of crisis

Roberto Bissio. Social Watch International Secretariat

Box: How is China really doing?

Box: The MDGs, easier said than measured

Human rights and the economic system

Roberto Bissio. Social Watch International Secretariat

Box: Cameroon and citizens with disabilities: many commitments, few results

THEMATIC REPORTS
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Waking up to the true story of tax

Nicholas Shaxson and John Christensen
Tax Justice Network

The EU’s legal and financial structure: implications for basic human rights

Mirjam van Reisen - Europe External Policy Advisors (EEPA) and Simon Stocker - Eurostep

Liberalization limits social and economic rights in the Arab Region

Kinda Mohamadieh
Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)

MEASURING PROGRESS
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Basic Capabilities Index 2008. Alarmingly slow progress

Food security. The high cost of basic rights

Education. New technologies and old debts

Information, science and technology. The ruses of inequity: from the digital to the cognitive gap

Public expenditure. The need to invest in people

Development assistance. The more help, the more rights

Water and sanitation. The clean water gap

Health. Globalization and its pathologies

Reproductive health. A matter of life and death

Gender Equity. 20th century debts, 21st century shame

Gender Equity Index 2008

Status of ratifications of fundamental ILO conventions

Status of ratifications of human rights international treaties

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Methodological notes: thematic tables

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NATIONAL REPORTS

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Text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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