Table of Contents

Voices that make a difference
Roberto Bissio

People first
Roberto Bissio

THEMATIC REPORTS

A human rights-based response to the financial and economic crisis
Aldo Caliari, Center of Concern

Gender equality and the financial crisis

Nancy Baroni, Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action; Mirjana Dokmanovic, Association Technology and Society,
Serbia and Women in Development Europe (WIDE); Genoveva Tisheva, Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation and
Bulgarian-European Partnership Association and Emily Sikazwe, Women for Change

The global food price crisis

Sophia Murphy , Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

Justice to cool the planet

Isagani Serrano, PRRM, Social Watch Philippines

Energy challenges for Europe

Elena Triffonova, Bulgarian- European Partnership Association

Holding transnational corporations accountable for human rights obligations: the role of civil society

Jana Silverman, Social Watch and Alvaro Orsatti, Trade Union Confederation of the Americas

The global economic crisis and the least developed countries: citizens’ concerns

Arjun Karki, LDC Watch

Mounting development challenges posed by the world economic crisis: policy options in the Arab region

Kinda Mohamadieh, Arab NGO Network for Development and Oliver Pearce, Christian Aid

Europe’s response to the global financial and economic crisis

Mirjam van Reisen, Europe External Policy Advisors (EEPA), Simon Stocker and Louisa Vogiazides, Eurostep

NATIONAL REPORTS

1

Algeria

32

Malaysia

2

Argentina

33

Malta

3

Bahrain

34

Mexico

4

Bangladesh

35

Moldova

5

Belgium

36

Morocco

6

Benin

37

Mozambique

7

Bolivia

38

Nepal

8

Brazil

39

Nicaragua

9

Bulgaria

40

Nigeria

10

Burma (Myanmar)

41

Palestine

11

Cambodia

42

Paraguay

12

Canada

43

Peru

13

Central African Republic

44

Philippines

14

Chile

45

Poland

15

Costa Rica

46

Portugal

16

Cyprus

47

Romania

17

Czech Republic

48

Senegal

18

Egypt

49

Serbia

19

El Salvador

50

Slovakia

20

Eritrea

51

Slovenia

21

France

52

Somalia

22

Germany

53

Spain

23

Ghana

54

Tanzania

24

Guatemala

55

Thailand

25

Honduras

56

Uganda

26

Hungary

57

United States of America

27

India

58

Venezuela

28

Iraq

59

Vietnam

29

Italy

60

Yemen

30

Kenya

61

Zambia

31

Lebanon

MEASURING PROGRESS

Food security
A fragmented scenario

Education
Differences become more noticeable

Information, science and technology
The fastest breach

Development assistance
Commitments undertaken are further and further away from being fulfilled

Water and sanitation
The gap is widening

Health
Unequal improvement

Reproductive health
Marked polarization

Ratifications of fundamental ILO conventions

Ratifications of human rights international treaties

How to read the Social Watch tables

Methodological notes: thematic tables