Marvellous watchdog you are!

The new guy is an alert watchdog.

Elsa will look after him. She's a wonderful watchdog.

14. European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT Environment Watchdog Group) Brussels, Belgium

Oh. Well, let's say a watchdog. I've got all the better instincts.

You guys go to sleep and I'll be watchdog for a few hours.

The United Nations has a special obligation as the global watchdog against human rights abuses.

Efforts are also required to correct the public perception of IAEA as being just a nuclear watchdog agency.

Mr. Ferguson, being an exdetective, would have seemed the proper choice for the role of watchdog and protector.

The media watchdog group Articulo 19 attributed more than half of attacks on journalists last year to police and public officials.

NHS watchdog NICE has advised that it should be given to people for four years, to further reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems.

But now NHS watchdog NICE has advised that it should be given to people for four years, to further reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems.

Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS and tells stories of citizen journalists in action.

In addition, increased citizen access to government information and civic education creates or reinforces the watchdog function of citizens, a function either foreign to or weak in many countries.

To switch animal metaphors, it is a watchdog without teeth. It can neither instruct the other regulators what to do (or not do) nor force member countries to comply with new regulations.

UNDP should continue to work collaboratively with UNIFEM, but the UNIFEM role is to be the watchdog, advocate, and innovator it has neither the scale nor the capacity to assume UNDP gender mainstreaming responsibilities.

The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) met the prevailing international norms of regulatory practices and had successfully carried out its function as watchdog over the Indian nuclear programme and over other installations handling radiation.

Demands that are perceived as greedy erode legitimacy and, ultimately, effectiveness. In this context, watchdog NGOs dedicated to scoring the public interest value of what business groups ask for from the government could facilitate trust.

The International Organization of La Francophonie has set up a human rights and democracy watchdog with a web site that monitors French speaking countries' obligations under international human rights instruments by reviewing reports, communications and conclusions.

For Anna Harare and his followers, the only solution is another state agency a vast and all powerful anti corruption watchdog with the power to coerce and intimidate. Others call for a spiritual revival within Indian society.

Further strengthening of the National Child Rights Observatory Group, established in 2004, will be prioritized in 2005, ensuring that an independent, nationwide child rights watchdog mechanism is functioning and contributing to the reduction of child rights violations.

As Sherlock Holmes understood, a dog that does not bark in the nighttime usually goes unnoticed. In Europe s case, the European Union s fiscal rules are at issue, and the Commission in principle the EU s watchdog should bark loudly when they are flouted.

But the share of countries classified as not free or partly free by the democracy watchdog Freedom House has hardly changed over the same period. In the battle between networks and hierarchies, the hierarchies seem to be winning more often than not.

The Nigerian delegation considers nuclear non proliferation and disarmament as two sides of the same coin that must be pursued with equal vigour in order to facilitate the IAEA's safeguards regime and the Agency's role as watchdog in the development of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Indeed, the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen has demonstrated that free speech even helps mitigate seemingly natural catastrophes like famines, because it reveals the ways in which a few haves exploit the many have nots. As the watchdog organization Transparency International reminds us, corruption exposed is in many cases corruption prevented.

Today s real problems are vastly different from when colonial empires held sway, and they need to be dealt with in a non imperialist fashion. So what is really needed nowadays is for the world public to become convinced of the need for an effective international watchdog for peace and human rights.

The Special Rapporteur is of the view that the threat of legal sanction and closure based on unclear procedural and substantive criteria undoubtedly inhibits freedom of expression and can only result in a still further lessening of the ability of the press to act as a watchdog of Government and impart information of public interest.

The Kenyatta government could go a long way toward addressing the problem with one very practical measure establishing and supporting an independent watchdog to audit hiring and promotion decisions in official agencies. The vetting process that Kenyans observed being applied to recent cabinet appointments should be extended throughout the public sector (and also to private entities that win state contracts).

Tuto warns that, should Evo win, he might consolidate a Latin American axis of evil connecting a leftist Bolivia with Fidel Castro s Cuba and Hugo Chávez s Venezuela. Evo counters that Tuto is too linked to Bolivia s corrupt political establishment one of the most dishonest in the world according to the watchdog group Transparency International to do much for Bolivia s two thirds Indian majority.

The issues discussed in the third segment included advocacy for the importance of local self government and the development of decentralization and democratic local governance introduction of the Global Observatory of Local Democracy (GOLD) a partnership mechanism which will act as a local democracy watchdog and monitor progress on the development of good governance and democracy at local level and effective decentralization around the world.

For example, if Iran s nuclear activities were to be surrounded with enough voluntarily accepted checks and controls, we could be confident of detecting at an early stage any diversion toward military purposes. Iran could develop its civil nuclear program while remaining a signatory to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty the IAEA would be able to fulfill its role as watchdog and perhaps confidence in Iranian intentions would slowly be restored.

Iran claims that its nuclear program is aimed solely at peaceful uses, and that it has the right to develop uranium enrichment and other technologies as a signatory of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT). But it spent 18 years deceiving inspectors from the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, leading some countries to argue that Iran destroyed its credibility and forfeited its rights to enrichment on its own soil.

Improving governance and fighting corruption helps countries deliver basic services better and create growth and employment opportunities for the benefit of the poor. That is why we are strengthening citizen and watchdog oversight of public resources in countries like Tanzania, as well as supporting poor people, including indigenous women, in efforts to gain greater access to the judicial system through mobile courts, as we are doing in Guatemala.

It will also be able to look into complaints against members of the police force if, following internal investigation, they are not resolved in a satisfactory manner. The commission will therefore act as a watchdog over possible cover ups or leniency towards abuse by the police. In setting up this commission, my Government hopes to reinforce the effective protection of the fundamental rights of its citizens already afforded to them under the Constitution.