---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:59:49 -0700 From: Carol D. McRoberts <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [WASAN] Fw: [women-csd] FW: 2004 Social Watch report will be launched in New York Subject: [women-csd] FW: 2004 Social Watch report will be launched in New York > ** Social Watch News ** > April 2004 > www.socialwatch.org > > Social Watch: Breaking promises is not the path towards world security > > “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. > > The Social Watch report keeps track every year about progress and > regression in the path towards eradicating poverty and achieving gender > equity, a promise made by governments at the UN in 1995 and reaffirmed in > the year 2000 in the largest gathering ever held of world leaders. > > Yet, according to Social Watch, the necessary increase in aid has been too > little and too slow, the international trade system is still biased against > the > poor farmers that constitute a majority of the people living in poverty and > the world finances have not been reformed in a way that might help poor > countries overcome chronic indebtedness that sucks away the their scarce > resources. In contrast, military expenditures are on the rise everywhere. > > Contributors to the Social Watch report 2004 include organizations from > places as diverse as Iraq and Switzerland, from the richest and the poorest > countries in the world. Armed conflict and high crime rates are perceived as > major threats by citizens in many of them, but poverty and declining > coverage of social services are feared the most by citizens in many others. > Corruption, lack of responsiveness by governments to the concerns of their > subjects, gender or ethnic discrimination… the list goes on and the culprits > identified include local authorities, international institutions and large > corporations. > > Social Watch was created around the idea that unless citizens monitor the > commitments made by governments they will not be met. Even international > institutions whose declared task is to fight poverty, like the World Bank, in > > practice grade countries against their allegiance to corporate-friendly > policies > and not according to their success in helping people make a decent living. > > The Social Watch report will be officially launched at the United Nations in > New York next April 26. > > It is available on the Internet at: > http://www.socialwatch.org/ > > __________________________________________ > > Social Watch International > Jackson 1136, Montevideo 11200, Uruguay > > To receive regular updates: > Please visit www.socialwatch.org > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > This is a listserver set up by the CSD Women's Caucus. It has been established to circulate information in relation to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), particularly on women / gender and sustainable development issues. The CSD is the UN body mandated to monitor the follow-up of the Rio Earth Summit (1992) and the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002). > To learn more about the CSD Women's Caucus work, check the web-site at www.earthsummit2002.org/wcaucus/csdngo.htm > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/DKgolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> We periodically meet the fourth Wednesday of the month. For a calendar of local Africa events see http://www.ibike.org/africamatters/calendar.htm . To post a message: [log in to unmask] Others who want to subscribe need to send a message to [log in to unmask] from the email account they want to subscribe. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wa-afr-network/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [log in to unmask] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~