Full coverage: Development

30.07.2004 On Sunday, July 25, hundreds of youth marched from Parque Metropolitano in the foothills of Quito, Ecuador, to Plaza San Francisco in the heart of the Old Town. There they met up with thousands more people who had come from across the Americas to attend the first ever Social Forum of the Americas.

30.07.2004 Campaigners have accused the United States of blocking progress on reform of global trade rules. World Trade Organisation (WTO) members have been meeting this week in Geneva in an attempt to move forward the talks that stalled last year in Cancun. US participation was characterised by the pursuit of short term self-interest, which could cause the current round to collapse, said Oxfam.

29.07.2004 En el taller, consensuaron que el agua es mercancía únicamente si lo permitimos. De ahí la importancia de construir, articularnos como organización de resistencia a las zonas de privatización.

29.07.2004 Dentro de las ponencias más enérgicas estuvo la de Remy Herrera de Bélgica, que dejo claro que los pueblos desean justicia, educación y salud para todos, y un trato igualitario ante la ley, que ese proyecto político se llama socialismo y propuso la revolución como medio para alcanzarlo.
En: Minga Informativa

29.07.2004 Common challenges to collective rights and survival affecting the indigenous Arara in Brazil, Mursi and Bodi in Ethiopia, and Veddah in Sri Lanka have been reported by Survival. Conflict and competing claims over land rights are the key factor in all three cases, threatening the livelihoods and long-term survival of the communities concerned.

29.07.2004 E’ stato presentato al Forum Sociale delle Americhe il nuovo rapporto Social Watch, intitolato quest'anno "Paure e miserie" e dedicato al tema della sicurezza.Per Roberto Bissio è importante che la societa' civile eserciti una forte pressione sui governi in vista del summit alle Nazioni unite previsto ad ottobre 2005 per verificare gli impegni rispetto agli Obiettivi di Sviluppo del Millennio (MDG). Le Ong raccolte in Alliance2015, hanno presentato un rapporto che rappresenta la grande differenza tra la retorica e i risultati dell’Europa sugli obiettivi. Tra i paesi che si stanno sviluppando per raggiungere gli obiettivi ci sono Burkina Faso, Mali e Madagascar.

29.07.2004 A criatividade é a chave para que a construção volte a ser sustentável, um setor que absorve mais da metade dos recursos naturais extraídos na América Latina, dizem os especialistas.
Em: Terramérica

29.07.2004 El oriente antioqueño, que ocupa 7,000 km² y cuenta con 23 municipios, está ubicado en el noroccidental departamento de Antioquia. Es una de las regiones más militarizadas de Colombia: además de seis batallones del Ejército y numerosos destacamentos policiales, hay cuatro frentes guerrilleros —dos de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) y dos del Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN)—, así como dos bloques paramilitares.

28.07.2004 Brasil y Argentina son países en 'default' (insolvencia) social y ambiental, según el modelo de índice de riesgo país alternativo (IRPA) presentado este martes en el I Foro Social de las Américas que se realiza en la capital de Ecuador.

28.07.2004 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been involved in an interagency effort to explore and summarize the current state of knowledge on adaptation to climate change and the need for its integration into poverty eradication and sustainable development efforts. The 10 agencies involved (UNDP, UNEP, World Bank, ADB, AfDB, GTZ, DFID, OECD, and EC) worked collaboratively on producing a paper entitled, “Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation".

28.07.2004 Unfair trade rules rob poor countries of £1.3 bn a day – 14 times what they get in aid. Join the UK’s biggest ballot to end poverty - call on Tony Blair to make trade fair. Vote for Trade Justice is supported by more than 50 UK organisations in the Trade Justice Movement, including CAFOD, Christian Aid, Oxfam and Friends of the Earth.

28.07.2004 Companies must make a vital and increased contribution to key targets set by governments on broad issues including poverty, equality and the environment, says Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of mining giant Anglo-American. At a conference on the millennium development goals, Sir Mark commented that multinational companies CSR reports focused on "domestic" issues in detail, while clear benefits also exist for companies that report on CSR activities in developing nations.

28.07.2004 A recent workshop in the Indian capital saw parliamentarians and state legislators zero in on two key elements of an effective population control strategy — poverty eradication and education.

28.07.2004 Global security is about inequality, injustice and livelihood – and trade connects all these issues, says Britain’s international development secretary Hilary Benn. The cycle of international trade talks, which reach a critical point this month, is a key element in the progress towards a fairer world.

28.07.2004 Sistemas de geração de energia renovável são instalados em regiões isoladas da Amazônia e atendem populações carentes do Estado.

28.07.2004 Chavannes Jean Baptiste, porte-parole du Mouvement Paysan National du Congrès de Papaye (Hinche, Est) a réagi avec réserve et lancé des mises en garde après la récente réunion de Washington sur l'aide internationale à Haïti.

27.07.2004 As countries across the world come together in Geneva Tuesday to study a World Trade Organization (WTO) draft on agriculture, Indian activists have warned that millions of farmers in the developing world will be badly hit if the document is accepted.

27.07.2004 Emphasizing the role of electronic media in development, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged broadcasters in Asia to formulate media policies that enable free and open information exchange.

26.07.2004 The Indian government announced that it will scale up HIV/AIDS care and support facilities, establish linkages with reproductive and primary health and involve young people in the fight against the infection.

26.07.2004 According to a new report from Oxfam, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) reform talks to be held in Geneva this week may collapse because rich countries are not fulfilling their promises to lay the ground for possible reduction of world poverty by redressing global trade imbalances. The draft negotiating text released by the WTO “shows evidence of considerable rich-country influence and does not adequately address key areas of interest to developing countries” such as the export dumping, market access and protection of vulnerable sectors of the their economy.