Put people, not finances, first

Call from Dakar to Mobilize for the G8 and the G20 in France in 2011 For the G8, May 21 and 22 in Deauville For the G20, from October 31 to November 5, 2011 in Cannes Gathered together here in Dakar during the Convergence Assembly for Action against the G8/G20 at the World Social Forum, we - the social movements, trade unions, international solidarity associations, women and men from all continents - are calling for massive popular mobilizations during the G8 summit on May 26th and 27th (...) read

date of on-line publication : 8 March 2011

Labour Assembly: Southern Trade Unions’ Voice on Global Economic & Social Crisis

> November 9, 2010, Seoul, Koren

Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) Central Única**dos Trabalhadores(CUT-Brazil) Korean Confederation of Trade Unions ** G20, a group of the 20 largest economies in the world designated itself as a center to defeat the global crisis. However, the solution given by the G20 is to keep stable the world system in which the profit is maximized thorough jobless growth and sacrifice of labour. People have lost their jobs and wages with the excuse of the (...) read

date of on-line publication : 3 November 2010

Social Watch: G8 countries have not met their promises

The world’s most powerful countries have failed to live up to their promises, distancing the poorest countries even further from satisfying the basic minimum needs of their citizens. According to the Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) published today by Social Watch (http://www.socialwatch.org), at the current rate of progress universal access to a minimum set of social services will only be achieved in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2108. This means a delay of almost a century with regards to the (...) read

date of on-line publication : 6 June 2007