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Published on Fri, 2011-07-22 07:29
Source: Ceské Noviny The Social Watch 2010 report released on Thursday in Prague criticised the Czech Republic for cutting welfare benefits and the planned government reforms that it says threaten low-income families who may fall into poverty, reported the Ceské Noviny newspaper |
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Published on Fri, 2011-07-22 07:27
Source: TunisiaLive.net The Tunisian League for Human Rights, focal point of Social Watch, condemned the attempts by the European Union and the United States to deny the humanitarian Freedom Flotilla 2 from sealing toward Gaza, reported the news portal TunisiaLive.net. |
Published on Thu, 2011-07-21 07:30
Source: Third World Network The last two rainy seasons did not materialize over a major portion of the Horn of Africa. All of Somalia, and large swaths of Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti and northern Uganda are now experiencing their worst drought in sixty years, warned Doreen Stabinsky, Professor of Global Environmental Politics at College of the Atlantic in Maine, United States. |
Published on Wed, 2011-07-20 07:17
Source: Social Watch In its 5th Global Assembly held in Manila last week, Social Watch concluded that “the current growth-led economic model is economically inefficient, socially unjust, environmentally damaging and politically unsustainable”. Thus, it pledged to “challenge the prevailing economic paradigm based on GDP growth worldwide” and to further its contribution to “the development of alternative indicators”. |
Published on Tue, 2011-07-19 07:20
Source: Social Watch India Most of the 70,000 complaints filed every year at the National Human Rights Commission of India “are against police”, said Dr. K. S.Subramanian, former policeman and author of the report “Social Watch India Perspective Series Vol.:3”, launched last week. |
Published on Fri, 2011-07-15 08:40
Source: Social Watch “The current growth model that has evolved since the early 1980s has become economically inefficient, socially unstable, environmentally damaging and politically unsustainable. So it must be changed. But getting there will probably lead to increased social conflict,” said Juan Somavia, ILO Director General, in his message to the Social Watch Global Assembly in Manila. |
Published on Fri, 2011-07-15 08:27
Source: Social Watch International advocates of social and economic justice attending the 5th Social Watch Global Assembly in Manila urged governments to ratify the implementation of Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers following its adoption by the United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) in June. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-07-15 07:57
Source: Social Watch The Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), European Solidarity Towards Equal Participation of People (Eurostep) and Social Watch urged this week to the European governments to rethink its “priorities and approaches in its cooperation” with the Arab countries in this “period of change and quest for a new social contract between citizen and the state”. |
Published on Thu, 2011-07-14 11:45
"Today, Social Watch is more necessary than ever before," said ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia, who defined himself as "a great supporter" of this network. In a message sent via Youtube to the Global Assembly of SW in Manila, Somavia added that this international alliance of civil society organizations "has proven its worth" and "persistently reminded governments as well as international organizations, business and NGOs of the need to act" on their commitments. |
Published on Thu, 2011-07-14 09:24
Source: The Star. Income inequality in Canada is widening as the rich get richer while poor and middle-income people lose ground, says the Conference Board of Canada in a report released Wednesday, according to The Star newspaper. “While the poor are minimally better off in an absolute sense, they are significantly worse off in a relative sense. And where is the middle-class in all of this? These are important questions for society,” said board president Anne Golden in an interview. The 33-year trend which has accelerated since 1993 raises questions about the country’s economic well-being, including whether Canada is using all the skills and talents of its citizens and whether social cohesion and fairness are being undermined, says the report titled "How Canada Performs: Is Canada becoming more unequal?" |
