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Disarmament
Despite recession, global arms race spirals
The global financial crisis has not deterred some of the world's developed and developing nations from bolstering their military arsenals with expensive new weapons systems, including sophisticated fighter planes, combat helicopters, submarines, armoured vehicles and air defence systems.
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NEWS
Selected news
Malawi: country not safe for homosexuals
Thu Mar 18 2010 - Source: IPS - TerraViva
Malawi is quickly becoming unsafe for homosexuals as the country’s police service recently launched a campaign to hunt down and arrest prominent people who are suspected of being gay.
5th World Urban Forum to focus on 'right to the city'
Thu Mar 18 2010 - Source: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
Today, more than half the world's population lives in cities. Every year, hundreds of thousands are uprooted when neighborhoods are cleared to make way for “development”. On 22-26 March, the fifth session of the World Urban Forum will be held in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro to address these issues.
Civil Society Statement concerning Beijing +15 process review
Wed Mar 17 2010 -
The official Declaration appears to overstate the progress made, and to ignore the slow and partial nature of implementation. It underestimates the degree and types of challenges that remain for women in their multiple identities, including the persistence of all forms of violence. Pdf format.
CAMPAIGNS
End evictions in Mali
Helping Chile

Climate change
The political economy of carbon markets
Carbon trading, also known as the cap and trade system, was introduced in the Kyoto negotiations as a mechanism for regulating carbon emissions mainly to please the United States. A new book looks into the political economy of carbon markets presenting a number of alternatives to live in real low-carbon futures.
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Beijing +15 - Fifteen-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action
Putting gender economics at the forefront
It is time to put an end to the gender blindness of current economic policies concludes a new occasional paper by the international civil society network Social Watch entitled “Putting gender economics at the forefront. 15 years after the IV World Conference on Women”. The publication is launched March 9 2010 in New York to mark the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
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Economic, social and cultural rights - ESCR
Bringing human rights to bear in times of crisis
The report "Bringing Human Rights to Bear in Times of Crisis: A human rights analysis of government responses to the economic crisis" aims to deepen our understanding of how governments have conducted themselves and how effective economic policies have been in defending and strengthening the enjoyment of human rights in a time of multiple and interlocking social and economic crises.
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