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2004 Social Watch Report was launched in Quito
The 2004 Social Watch report titled "Miedos y miserias. Obstáculos a la seguridad humana" was launched at the FSA on July 28. Salil Shetty, director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign, Roberto Bissio, coordinator of Social Watch, Karina Batthyány, Social Sciences Head Researcher, and Iara Pietricovsky, from INESC/Social Watch Brazil, were present at the event.
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Americas Social Forum: global forum to move and improve
The Quito meeting has given rise to new ideas for building theories for ”the articulation of ideas of a new world, in which we must combine equality and diversity at the same rate”. Source: IPS
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International justice or free trade
The United States is using the carrot of free trade agreements to pressure countries in Latin America not to ratify the statute for the International Criminal Court (ICC), complained human rights activists and an indigenous legislator at the first Social Forum of the Americas.
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