Echoes in the press

Bridging the chasm between rhetoric and reality

Published on Tue, 2010-09-21 17:34

Source: IPS
By Aprille Muscara

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18, 2010 (IPS) - On the eve of Monday's highly-anticipated U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit in which world leaders will gather here to reaffirm their commitment to the eight goals, civil society remains deeply sceptical.

"The summit demonstrates an overwhelming gap between rhetoric and reality," Mirjam van Reisen told IPS. Reisen is the director of Europe External Policy Advisors and one of the authors of a new Social Watch publication released Friday.

MDGs: From bad to worse?

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. Published on Tue, 2010-09-21 00:00

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by Angela Zarro - SID

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Social Watch Report 2010: After the Fall – Time for a new deal

Published on Mon, 2010-09-20 16:47

Source: NGLS

Today, Social Watch launched, After the Fall – Time for a new deal, a report that calls for climate justice; financial, fiscal and economic justice; social and gender justice; and plain old justice.

The report addresses various thematic issues, and looks at international as well as national progress made on the MDGs. It notes with concern that progress on poverty reduction has slowed down since the MDGs were set and notes that social progress does not automatically follows economic growth. Besides, it highlights that better (non-monetary) indicators are needed to more accurately monitor the evolution of poverty in the world.