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Social Watch concluyó en su quinta Asamblea Mundial, celebrada la semana pasada en Manila, que "el actual modelo económico basado en el desarrollo resulta económicamente ineficiente, socialmente injusto, medioambientalmente nocivo y políticamente insostenible". Por eso, se comprometió a "desafiar el paradigma económico dominante basado en el crecimiento del PBI a nivel mundial” y seguir contribuyendo con el "desarrollo de indicadores alternativos”. |
Published on Mon, 2011-07-25 12:00
Source: Mizzima, reproduced by Burma News International The National League for Democracy (NLD), opposition party banned by the Burmese military regime, plans to take its case to the United Nations Council of Human Rights (UNCHR). Thai-based Burma Lawyers’ Council (BLC, focal point of Social Watch) supports the move, reported Mizzima, a news agency run by Burmese journalists exiled in India. |
| Published on Fri, 2011-07-22 11:27 |
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El Director General de la OIT, Juan Somavia, alertó ante la Asamblea Mundial de Social Watch que “el actual modelo de desarrollo que ha venido evolucionando desde comienzos de los años 80 se ha tornado económicamente ineficiente, socialmente inestable, ambientalmente nocivo y políticamente insostenible. Por lo tanto debe ser cambiado”, y planteó la necesidad de lograr un crecimiento con justicia social. |
Published on Fri, 2011-07-22 07:41
Source: Social Watch Leonor Briones, of Philippines, and Tanya Dawkins, of the United States, were elected as co-chairs of the Coordinating Committee of Social Watch on 16 July, after the network’s Global Assembly, held in Manila last week. The 15 members of this body were chosen in a gender balanced way and represent Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and the Arab region. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-07-22 07:33
Source: The Star of Malaysia Two rating agencies, Moody’s and Standard and Poor, warned they might downgrade United States debt from its AAA status if the political impasse over a possible default continues, wrote Martin Khor, Executive Director of South Centre, in his most recent column for The Star, one of the leading Malaysian newspapers. There are several reasons why the world, and especially the developing countries, should be alarmed at this situation. |
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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. |
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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. |
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