Press Responses - September 18, 2002
Acres Int'l convicted in African bribery case
Engineering firm shocked; plans appeal
Press Release - Wednesday, July 24, 2002
International financial institutions need injection of democracy
Coalition calls on Canadian government to take up UNDP recommendations at the Annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF governors
For immediate release
Press Release - Friday, July 19, 2002
NGOs respond to G8 Action Plan for Africa
NGOs are looking for commitments and follow-through in the following areas:
Bring NEPAD Home for Democratic Debate
Press Release - Wednesday, July 10, 2002
For immediate release: July 10, 2002
CEE BANKWATCH HUNGARY * HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF KYRGYZSTAN * MINERAL POLICY CENTER * MININGWATCH CANADA
*** FATALITY AT TROUBLED KUMTOR GOLD MINE
*** Kyrgyz and International NGOs Renew Call for Independent Environmental/Safety Audit
*** Coalition to Assemble Audit Team
Press Responses: July 8, 2002
Travelling Road Show helps raise public knowledge of G-8
(PDF file) - [Lethbridge Heald]
Press Responses: June 24, 2002
Activists struggle to be heard
(PDF file) - [Calgary Hearld]
June 2002 - Ottawa Citizen
Commentator barred from G8 media site
Press Responses : June 21, 2002
As next week's summit looms, activists find a 'perimeter of fear' keeps them far away from the action
G8 leaders bring differing priorities to the table. Activists, meantime, aren't even being allowed in
By DAWN WALTON
Friday, June 21, 2002 Print Edition, Page A6
CALGARY -- While African development is supposed to be the central focus at next week's meeting of world leaders, access denial is becoming a major theme for globalization opponents.
June 15, 2002, Article on G8 and Africa
Saturday, June 15, 2002, The Halifax Herald
Poor suffocating under debt - activists
Lack of food, water, health care killing 19,000 African children daily
Ted Pritchard / Herald Photo
Social activists Njoki Njoroge Njehu, front, and Thandiwe Nkomo speak at a news conference Friday criticizing the G-7 financial leaders' inaction on World Bank reform.
Press Responses : June 15, 2002
Calgary Herald June 15, 2002
Give Africa more of a say in its own future: coalition
By Allison Auld - The Canadian Press
Group of Seven countries must cancel soaring debts that impoverish African nations and revise aid programs to better suit the needs of people in countries that languish under heavy financial burdens, a coalition of activists said yesterday.