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Published on Wed, 2004-12-01 16:38
Montevideo, 30 April 2004 - Today the commitment made by the Uruguayan Government to work together with civil society to define social development goals based on the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals was reaffirmed by Ariel Davrieux, Head of the Planning and Budget Ministry, during the ceremony at which UN representatives formally presented the Uruguayan Government and civil society with the results of the consultation process around these goals that took place between October 2003 and March 2004. |
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Published on Wed, 2004-12-01 16:38
Previous to the official launching of the Social Watch 2004 report in New York, authors of the report discussed its conclusions in Washington with advocacy NGOs involved in campaigning around trade and financial issues. |
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Published on Wed, 2004-12-01 16:38
“Frustrating the hopes of peoples and nations all around the globe will certainly not help make the world a more secure place for our children” concludes the Social Watch report 2004, summarizing the findings of citizen coalitions in 50 countries, poor and rich, about what they see as main obstacles to human security. |
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Published on Wed, 2004-12-01 16:38
Social Watch Report 2004 was launched in a press conference that was broadcasted through the Internet last April 26th. |
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Published on Wed, 2004-12-01 16:38
Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing highlighted that the very serious situation in Brazil with respect to homelessness, landlessness, housing deficit and housing inadequacy results from the historic discrimination against the black community and indigenous people, and the marginalization of the poor. |
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Published on Wed, 2004-12-01 16:38
The German edition of the 2004 Social Watch Report was launched at a press conference in Berlin on July 1, 2004. |
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Published on Wed, 2004-12-01 16:38
The 2004 Social Watch report titled "Miedos y miserias. Obstáculos a la seguridad humana” was launched at the FSA on July 28. Salil Shetty, director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, Roberto Bissio, coordinator of Social Watch, Karina Batthyány, Social Sciences Head Researcher, and Iara Pietricovsky, from INESC/Social Watch Brazil, were present at the event. |
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Published on Wed, 2004-12-01 16:38
Stresa, Italy, 23 October. "We all agreed that poverty is the key problem of our times, and it is a political problem," said former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev at the closing of the assembly of the World Political Forum in this tourist town on the shores of Lago Maggiore on the slopes of the Alps. |
