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Published on Fri, 2010-11-05 14:28
The 2010 Social Watch Report "After the Fall. Time for a New Deal" was presented before the European Parliament in a Hearing with civil society on 17 November 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. |
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Published on Mon, 2010-11-01 11:16
Two of Social Watch's focal points in Africa: SODNET, from Kenya and Sahringon from Tanzania have come together to share techology tools to monitor elections in Tanzania that took place 31st October 2010. SODNET's experience in monitoring the kenyan referendum on August 4, 2010 with notable results was key to develop the software platform named UCHAGUZI TZ. |
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Published on Fri, 2010-10-29 07:22
The Social Watch International Secretariat together with the Centre for Research on Labour and Agrarian Development (CEDLA) in Bolivia co-organized the Social Watch regional workshop for Latin America that took place from 20 to 22 October 2010 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. |
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Published on Thu, 2010-10-28 13:06
The FAO and World Food Programme (WFP) recently released the annual report “The State of Food Insecurity in the World”. The new estimate of the number of people who will suffer chronic hunger this year is 925 million — 98 million down from 1.023 billion in 2009. However, the fact that a child dies every six seconds because of undernourishment related problems is still unacceptable by any standard. |
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Published on Thu, 2010-10-28 13:00
"You have to imagine the IMF as a doctor”, said Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel. "The money is the medicine. But the countries - the patients - have to change their habits if they want to recover. It doesn't work any other way." http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,721158,00.html |
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Published on Wed, 2010-10-27 07:42
The current crises reflect a model blind to environmental and human rights issues and confusing economic growth with progress in society. A coherent analysis of the common causes of the multiple crises and their interdependencies is needed now. This presupposes overcoming the current fragmentation in the development discourse of politics, science and civil society. The crisis isn’t over – not without global partnerships on unemployment and environmental sustainability |
