Social Watch News
Published on Wed, 2011-06-29 11:34
Sources: Counter Balance (in English), ANND (in Arabic) A group of 67 civil society organizations from across 12 Arab countries raised concerns about the European Union (EU) and United States backed financial aid packages for Tunisia and Egypt, on the grounds that it could damage the process of democratic transitions and divert their revolutions’ economic and social justice goals. |
Published on Tue, 2011-06-28 12:54
Source: Inequality.org Milestone study carried out in the United States shows that if economic growth is not equally distributed, people will never grow happier. |
Published on Mon, 2011-06-27 10:52
Sources: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse, TunisiaLive, UNWomen. “From Tunisia and Egypt to Syria, Yemen, Libya and Bahrain, women have been active participants, calling for democracy, dignity and equality,” said Michelle Bachelet, UN Women Executive Director, at an international conference organised by the Tunisian Association of Democratic Women, national focal point of Social Watch in that country. |
Published on Fri, 2011-06-24 11:31 |
Published on Fri, 2011-06-24 10:43
Sources: Third World Network, Newsday, Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation African governments should be wary of the mining contracts they sign, as those agreements might not help them to get rid of Occidental powers but facilitate the Chinese exploitation, experts said this week at a conference organised by Third World Network-Africa (TWN-A, focal point of Social Watch) and the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) in Harare. |
Published on Fri, 2011-06-24 09:43
Source: SUNS. In what is viewed as a historical moment, the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted this month for the first time a landmark convention aimed at protecting between 53 and 100 millions of domestic workers worldwide, reported the South-North Development Monitor from Geneva. |
Published on Fri, 2011-06-24 09:37
Source: Agenda Global In international negotiations on climate change, where “the sums at stake are huge and the ones who are cheated are the poor”, the countries of the industrial North are using resources that appear as a slavish imitation of picaresque literature “to fool negotiators of the South”, wrote Roberto Bissio, Social Watch coordinator, in his last article for Agenda Global. |
Published on Fri, 2011-06-24 09:32
Sources: Centro de Documentación y Estudios, Diario Al Día, Decidamos (Campaña por la Expresión Ciudadana). One of the “huge mistakes” defended “as great truths” in Paraguay is that businesspeople “pay a lot” to the revenue service while in fact “direct taxation, which is the most unfair, is the largest” and “poor people end up paying more than the rich”, according to a report by economist José Carlos Rodríguez. The report was presented this month at the launching of the programme “Impuestos justos para inversión social” [Fair taxes for social investment] promoted by the |
Published on Thu, 2011-06-23 07:32
Sources: Bahrain Center for Human Rights, International Federation for Human Rights. The National Security Court of Bahrain sentenced this Wednesday to life imprisonment 8 of the 21 activists charged of being linked to supposed “terrorist activities”. The 13 others were sentenced to two to fifteen years’ imprisonment, reported several national, regional and international civil society organisations. |
Source: . Published on Thu, 2011-06-23 07:22
Noelia García Palomares |