Social Watch Annual Report 1999

Table of contents

From the Summits to the Grassroots

The Social Watch Chart of Fulfilled Commitments. An unreachable dream?

Information poverty

Measuring progress

The Chart of Fulfilled Commitments (zip)

Signature and Ratification of Key International Agreements

Eradication of poverty in the world: an assessment of the threshold of the year 2000

Why finance matters for the common good?

Needs for global financial regulation

The economic necessity of social justice

Structural adjustment review: a civil society perspective

Synopsis of a changing map: employment in the world

Women in the labour world: what about the commitment?

Cairo+5: moving forward in the eye of the storm

Human rights, more rights

Social Watch on education and gender

Advancing towards a gender FCI in Latin America

The 20/20 initiative and the Hanoi consensus

Political partnership with the European Union: an analysis

Some useful resources

From the Grassroots:

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