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Our goal is to eradicate poverty
Social Watch is a civil society research and monitoring initiative which currently involves hundreds of NGOs in some 60 nations. It was formed in the wake of the 1995 UN Social Summits in Copenhagen and Beijing, with the goal of monitoring how our governments were meeting their commitments to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality.
Each year country reports are developed around a unifying theme, synthesized and brought together in a global report produced by the Secretariat, which is located at the Third World Institute in Montevideo, Uruguay. This report is available in several languages.
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Social Watch Report 2009: Making Finances Work
People First Download 149.01 KB2 pages
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Budgets profoundly affect human rights says international report
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Ottawa—On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights a new international report concludes…
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Social Watch 2008: Rights is the Answer
Canada: Rights, budgets and building alternatives Download 108.1 KB2 pages
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Social Watch 2007: Insecurity Amid Wealth
Download 193.82 KB3 pages The canadian economy continues to lead the OECD in many respects. The federal government, after a near-decade of surpluses, expects another…
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Social Watch 2006: Fighting Mad
Canada’s new focus on the world Download 127.92 KB3 pages Canada is in the enviable position of having posted a budget surplus for nine consecutive…
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Growing regionalism blocks poverty reduction: Report
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA — After 15 years of repeated promises to reduce poverty at the national and international level, Canada…
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Social Watch 2005 Canada: Divided and Distracted
Regionalism as Obstacle to Reducing Poverty and Inequality Download 262.93 KB15 pages
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Report lambastes debt reduction target
Accuses Canada of squandering economic opportunity READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA – Canada is hoarding unprecedented economic wealth while human insecurity – at home…
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Squandering Canada’s Surplus
Opting for Debt Reduction and “Scarcity by Design” Download 215.31 KB15 pages
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Canadian public health care and world trade
What’s the connection? READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA–The Canadian government must take decisive action now to halt the commercialization of health care, says the…
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Social Watch Canada 2003 Report
Canada’s health care choice: Pawning or polishing the jewel in the crown of social programs Download 168.32 KB8 pages
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