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UN / GLOBAL FINANCIAL REGULATION : Social Watch Coordinator Roberto Bissio told reporters that economic recovery stimulus packages have been more effective in those countries where they were direct

Social Watch 2012: El derecho a un futuro

Watch and listen to Roberto Bissio's
press conference at UN headquarters
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Countries like Brazil, and also China and India, in “which stimulus packages 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.

Robert Bissio, Coordinator of Social Watch on “Civil Society and Global Financial Regulation – The Role of the United Nations”.

Repression in Yemen: gross
human rights violations in an
unsustainable country.
(Photo: HRITC)

Rights are the basis of sustainable development, said Roberto Bissio, coordinator of Social Watch, when asked to summarize the conclusions of the new report of this international network of civil society organizations, launched at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday, on the eve of the Human Rights Day. Over sixty national reports by independent citizen groups form the core of the Social Watch Report 2012, which this year focuses on the rights of future generations.

Sociedad civil plantea crear Ombudsperson de las Futuras Generaciones en Rio+20
Informe de Social Watch 2012: El derecho a un futuro


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