Uruguayan journalist. Coordinator of the #EndAusterity Campaign
Montevideo
Joined June 2013
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⚠️ In this time of compounding crises, austerity affects almost all of us.
Cuts to salaries and social protection. Privatization of public services. Higher food and fuel prices. Cuts to teachers, health staff, civil servants.
These decisions can affect millions—but they shouldn't happen behind closed doors.
🌍 Ahead of the IMF-WB Annuals next week, our NEW interactive world map tracks current IMF austerity discussions in countries around the world.
🔎 Find out what's being discussed in your country and what it could mean for your people:
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Austerity is not inevitable. Alternatives exist. #EndAusterityNow✊
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🚨 More than half the world’s population has no access to any form of social protection 🚨 so we joined with Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors (GCSPF), Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), Make Mothers Matter, Global Social Justice and USP2030 to raise this important discussion at the 2026 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) earlier this month.
Learn more at endausterity.org/austerity-t…
#EndAusterityNow #UniversalSocialProtection #HLPF2026 #SDGs
The #Villarceaux_Declaration recalls that #poverty evidences #humanrights violations and adds #austerity policies and the shift of social funds to the military to the list of obstacles to overcome
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Today @ico17president launches the #VillarceauxDeclaration after the 11th biennial meeting of the International Committee for the @UN #EndPovertyDay #October17.
Soon the text will be published on overcomingpoverty.org.
Special thanks to new members of the Committee bringing the commitments of @BahaiBIC_Rights @AntiPovertyWeek @RBissio @ATDIntPresident @ATD4thWorld
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Healthy life expectancy declines in the UK due to #austerity.
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Britain’s health deterioration “coincides with the introduction of austerity policies in the early 2010s but austerity is notably absent from many major reports and most of the media coverage”.
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Bolivia: Protests against austerity force cabinet reshuffle. President Rodrigo Paz announced the creation of an Economic and Social Council on May 21, in an attempt to calm the massive popular protests against austerity policies.
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Research shows that growth-oriented strategies accompanied by redistribution policies are the most promising path to recovery across the Global South. Rather than imposing cookie-cutter #austerity programs, the #IMF should be following the evidence.
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Austerity impose significant hardships on the poor while allowing the wealthy to continue accumulating profits.
#Austerity in the Global South, just launched by @IBONFoundation shows what's wrong with the examples of Argentina, Pakistan and Zambia.
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La macroeconomía influye hasta en nuestras citas."La grieta y la libertad", un cortometraje animado convierte en imágenes el libro de JP Boholavsky "Lo mío es mío y lo tuyo es mío" y muestra cómo afectan nuestra vida la #austeridad y el #neoliberalismo
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Austerity is good...
#Austerity is a virtue that all civilizations have praised. But the "austerity policies" endorsed by the #WorldBank and the #IMF actually ressemble what the classic Greek called "hybris" the humilliating crime of arrogant excess.
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The End Austerity Coalition is proud to announce that Roberto Bissio has been appointed Coordinator of the #EndAusterity Campaign (EAC). Roberto is an Uruguayan journalist & campaigner with deep experience defending social justice, women's rights & environmental sustainability
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How and why ANND was founded mid nineties last century @ArabNGONetwork @RBissio @socwatch @gpolicywatch @TWNetwork
Why was the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND) created?
In this podcast episode, Ziad Abdel Samad reflects on the context in which ANND emerged in the early 1990s, following the end of the Cold War, and on the ideas that shaped its foundation.
Joined by Roberto Bissio, Global Coordinator of Social Watch, the conversation also explores how regional civil society connected to global processes.
Watch the full episode on YouTube
youtu.be/8MkkN3qOZjI
لماذا تأسست شبكة المنظمات العربية غير الحكومية للتنمية (ANND)؟
في هذه الحلقة من البودكاست، يستعرض زياد عبد الصمد السياق الذي نشأت فيه الشبكة في مطلع التسعينيات، بعد نهاية الحرب الباردة، والأفكار التي شكّلت انطلاقتها.
ويشاركه الحوار روبرتو بيسيو، المنسّق العالمي لشبكة Social Watch، للحديث عن العلاقة بين المجتمع المدني في المنطقة والمسارات العالمية.
شاهدوا الحلقة كاملة على قناة ANND على يوتيوب youtu.be/8MkkN3qOZjI
As the US intends to buy Greenland, it is worth remembering how Louisiana was bought from Napoleon... who had no right to sell it. The sell was only possible thanks to the "desperate courage of 5 hundred thousand Haytian negroes who would not be enslaved."
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Once upon a time the US wanted badly to acquire a neighboring island of strategic value.
Three US diplomats concluded that if the owner refused to sell “by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from ((an European kingdom)).
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Érase una vez que Estados Unidos deseaba fervientemente adquirir una isla vecina de gran valor estratégico.
Tres destacados diplomáticos concluyeron que «según todas las leyes, humanas y divinas, estaremos justificados para arrebatarla...».
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Now at #UNGA80 #PeoplesAssembly: @rbissio of @thesocialwatch notes that countries spend money on wars instead of #poverty eradication.
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Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis – it is a moral crisis that challenges the global conscience.
We will continue to speak out.
But words don’t feed hungry children.
The @UN stands ready to make the most of a ceasefire to dramatically scale up humanitarian operations.
The Sevilla consensus: "You're on your own, kid!"
The UN conference on financing development reaffirms multilateralism, but left developing countries empty-handed.
#UN #developingcountries #Finance
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ANND's Newsletter is out!
IMF Policies: No Rule Fits All
Across six countries, diverse journeys shaped by IMF policies. Stories from Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia & Argentina
Newsletter Opening by Hassan Sherry: The IMF in the Arab Region: Reform Narratives and Policy Dilemmas bit.ly/4dy2EaB
A comprehensive look at the debt crisis in the Arab region by Ziad Abdel Samad : The Debt Crisis in the Arab World: Between Financial Sovereignty and Social Rights bit.ly/43x8wfC
Rhetorical Hypocrisy and Ideological Rigidity at the IMF - Salma Hussein bit.ly/44OWNLR
Lebanon and the IMF: A Crisis of Will - Dr. Khalil Gebara bit.ly/3FuvbkI6
Jordan and the IMF: From Rescue to Dependency - Ahmad Awad bit.ly/4jftCVH
Tunisia–IMF: An Amicable Divorce - Ghazi Boulila bit.ly/43JUnNn
IMF Policies and Their Impact on Morocco's Development Paths – Majida Damou bit.ly/44OSC2B
IMF to the rescue of Trump’s allies in Argentina (again) - Roberto Bissio bit.ly/44Zs5jj
Insights from ANND at the IMF Meetings with our colleague Diam Abou Diab bit.ly/3HoDrDo
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Uruguay has a new left-wing President Yamandú Orsi, and in his first speech, he distinguished himself clearly from Argentina's far-right, billionaire-sponsored, US puppet leader Javier Milei.
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Orsi said:
"There is an ultra-individualistic concept of 'freedom' that preaches domination by the strongest. This will never be our notion of freedom. The individual freedom in which we believe is the key to co-existence and the equality of opportunities in the essential aspects of life.
"How much 'freedom' can be exercised or enjoyed by a compatriot who has to spend weeks going on a pilgrimage to a health center to get their medicine?
"How 'free' is someone who suffers from serious problems with housing or work?
"How 'free' are women who feel violated on the street or behind closed doors in their homes?
"What individual freedom can be exercised amid collective inequality?"