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By Chiara Marie Trinidad 07/09/2011 |
| Published on Fri, 2011-07-08 12:22 |
Published on Fri, 2011-07-08 09:19
Source: Social Watch. Social Watch will define its strategy for the next years in its Global Assembly, which will bring together next week in Manila, Philippines, the diverse membership of the network. Representatives designated by national coalitions from over 70 countries of all continents will participate: women groups, human rights activists, unionists and campaigners for social justice. During three days, they will be discussing the new challenges brought about by the global crises and the civil society responses to it. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-07-08 09:13
Source: Yonhap News report cited by The Korea Herald. The number of affiliates of South Korea’s 15 largest chaebols has increased about 65 percent over the past four years, as those huge family-run business conglomerates have aggressively expanded their territory in the construction and real estate industries, reported this week the civic group Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ, focal point of Social Watch). |
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Published on Fri, 2011-07-08 09:10
Source: The New Indian Express. The new figures set by the Indian government to define poverty (an income of USD 0.45 a day for urban people and one of 0.33 for those living in rural areas) are “abysmally low”, wrote Himanshu Jha, the national coordinator of Social Watch India, in his most recent column for The New Indian Express, one of the major newspapers of his country. The politics fixed according to these indicators can exclude “a large section of the population” that needs aid from “the available social security net, which in this country is minimalist by any standard,” he warned. Jha’s column reads as follows: |
Published on Fri, 2011-07-08 09:07
Sources (in Spanish): SOS Racismo, El Comercio, Ecuador, EFE, at Mugak, Cadena SER. Racism and xenophobia have intensified in Spain under the influence of political forces and traditional parties that have assumed postulates until now restricted to the extreme right, warned the federation of non-governmental organizations SOS Racismo in its latest annual report. In recent months, “a time bomb” has been created, while “the political class fails as a whole; ones for playing the racist game and others for not condemning it enough”, said Alba Cuevas, the spokeswoman for the network in Cataluña. |
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MANILA, Philippines - Over 100 delegates from 60 countries around the world are expected to converge in Manila from July 12-15 to attend the global assembly of Social Watch, an international network of citizens’ organizations campaigning for social justice. |
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Source: Bayanihan. Published on Fri, 2011-07-08 05:21
MANILA, July 8 – Vice President Jejomar C. Binay will be the keynote speaker at the opening rites of the Social Watch 2011 Global Assembly on Tuesday, 12 July at the Sulo Riviera Hotel in Quezon City. |
Published on Thu, 2011-07-07 08:57
Sources: The Guardian, Inter Press Service, ANND's statement. Egypt's government decided not to borrow from the IMF, and the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) warned that conditions attached to lending by development banks --as liberalisation of trade, investment and deregulation advocated by the US and the EU-- had contributed to the current unrest in the Arab world, reported the British newspaper The Guardian. |
