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ECOSOC Holds Panel Discussion on Mobilizing Resources for Poverty -

20 July 2006

The Economic and Social Council this afternoon concluded its general discussion on the review and coordination of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010 and then held a panel discussion on the issue of mobilizing resources and creating an enabling environment for poverty eradication in the least developed countries, including implementation of the 2004 ministerial declaration.

UN: Ban Under Fire Over Secretariat Restructuring -

Thalif Deen

NEW YORK (IPS) - The 130-member Group of 77 (G77), the largest single coalition of developing nations, is challenging Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's decision to realign two key posts, one dealing with Africa and the other with the world's poorest nations, into a single mega entity.

Approaches to LDCs must change -

Drastic changes in approaches to LDCs needed

20 April 2008, Accra. Drastic changes to policies towards LDCs must be made, a meeting hears at the start of UNCTAD XII. Despite two decades of economic growth in LDCs, there has been little increase in employment and poverty reduction has hardly progressed. Macro economic policies of the IMF are identified as being the cause more>>

Global food crisis increases instability in world's poorest countries -

The global food crisis is taking its toll across the world. The current global food crisis will impact most in the world's poorest countries civil society leaders said in Accra, Ghana at a UN-held meeting.

Climate change, food security twin concerns of dev world -

Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Foreign Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury told the Ministers of the Group of 77 and China Sunday that climate change and food security were the twin concerns that confront the developing world today in crisis proportions, reports agency.

Call For New Approach To Help Poor Countries -

By Jennifer

LDC Watch, a global alliance of national, regional, and international civil society organisations, networks and movements from Least Developed Countries (LDS), have said the current development strategies adopted by the UN have failed the world's poorest countries.

Seminar on 'LDC and Brussels Plan of Actions (BPoA)' at National Press Club, Dhaka, Bangladesh

29 August 2008 LDC Watch, South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) and Equity and Justice Working Group (Equity BD), Bangladesh jointly organized the seminar on 'LDCs and Brussels Programme of Action (BPoA)' in Dhaka.
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NGOs fight to make their voices heard

By Jonathan Soble

July 6 2008. Recent G8 summits have not been kind to rabble-rousers. Ever since street violence marred the 2001 meeting in Genoa, Italy, and terrorists attacked the US that same year, summit organisers have swept their charges off to ever more remote locations. Islands, forests and highland retreats have been popular.

G8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan

SAAPE and LDC Watch, along with other networks and groups, have planned different public forums on illegitimate debt, ecological debt, climate justice and food crises during the G8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan. If any of you will be there, please do not miss these events as well.

Nepal Must Ratify the Optional Protocol on ESCR

On the occasion of adoption of the Optional Protocol on ESCR, the National Network on Right to Food (RtFN), Nepal welcomes the decision of the Human Rights Council on 18^th of June 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland adopting the Protocol. The adoption of the Optional Protocol is an important achievement for the materialisation of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).
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Join the International people's Solidarity Days

Resisting Free Trade, Militarism and Fighting for Real Solutions to Climate Change
No more world creating inequality, poverty and social disparity

We demand Climate Justice!
Join the International People's Solidarity Days to discuss and build our alternatives

The G8 Summit will be held this year from July 7-9 in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan. This will be a culmination of a series of ministerial preparation meeting beginning in March. The G8 Action Network, a network of various Japanese organizations and movements, is calling on all social movements, peasant organizations, women, migrants, urban and rural poor, fisherfolk and civil society from all over the world who are resisting free trade in its many forms, war and militarism, the privatization of essential services and natural resources, illegitimate debt and the domination of global finance, and fighting for and building real people based solutions to global warming, to come and join in the week of action against the G8 here in Japan.