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Changing the US, a new opportunity for the whole world
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Occupy Wall Street marks a new
trend in US society. (Photo:
David Shankbone/Good Magazine
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A growing number of US citizens raise their voices “demanding a new social contract” as the multiple world crises are increasing “poverty and income inequality at historic levels.” This unprecedented movement nurtures hope in a change of policies and behaviors “geared toward the well-being of Americans and the rest of the human race,” according to the US national contribution to the Social Watch Report 2012, launched last week.
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Countries that support poor people have recovered faster from the crisis
Countries like Brazil, and also China and India, in “which stimuluspackages were basically directed to support the poor in different ways,” have actually recovered faster from the crisis than industrialized countries, which bailed out banks and rich people, said at UN headquarters in New York Roberto Bissio, Coordinator of Social Watch, when he launched the most recent edition of the annual report of this international network of civil society organizations.
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Kyoto Protocol saved from extinction, yet significantly weakened
A new round of negotiations aimed at an agreement by 2015 was launched on Saturday 10 at a stormy last session of the Durban climate conference, reports Martin Khor, executive director of South Centre, in his most recent column for The Star, one of the leading Malaysian newspapers.
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Arab countries must follow their own models of democracy, not EU’s
“The European Union (EU) can assist in the process of democratization of Arab countries, but on our terms,” said Kinda Mohamadieh, program director of the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND, focal point of Social Watch) at the conference “Democracy & Development”, held in Warsaw.
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Canada: UN to investigate missing and murdered Aboriginal women
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women decided to conduct an inquiry into the murders and disappearances of Aboriginal women and girls across Canada. The decision was announced this week by Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada, and Sharon McIvor, of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, focal point of Social Watch in that North American.
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