Il y a 21 years 1 month.   Corporate accountability.   Acres loses appeal on bribery charge in Lesotho Canadian engineering firm convicted of bribing top official has fine reduced By KAREN MacGREGOR Special to The Globe and Mail Monday, August 18, 2003 - Page B3   DURBAN -- Canadian engineering firm Acres International Ltd. lost an appeal against conviction on a charge of bribery in a high-profile corruption case in Lesotho on Friday -- but won its fight against a second graft conviction and had a whopping fine of $4.2-million reduced to $2.8-million.   The Oakville, Ont., firm -- the first of three multinationals charged with bribing a top official to win lucrative contracts in the $3.3-billion Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which delivers water to Lesotho and South Africa -- was convicted last year of two counts of corruption. It was the first conviction by a developing country of a bribe-giving western company.   Read more ...

Il y a 21 years 1 month.   .   Resentment builds in Lesotho highlands   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/3128529.stm   BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents visited Lesotho, one of the world's poorest countries, where 30,000 people have been relocated because of an ambitious water project.   "Life was much easier before. We were not living as hard as we live here."     Read more ...

Il y a 21 years 1 month.   IFI policies and positions.   Now they tell us: Privatization is no panacea By MADELAINE DROHAN Wednesday, August 6, 2003 - Page A13 Finally, someone has come to their senses at the World Bank and admitted that letting the private sector run things does not always produce better results than leaving them in public hands. For an organization that has spent two decades pushing privatization with something akin to religious zeal, this amounts to a crisis of faith.   Read more ...

Il y a 21 years 1 month.   Government accountability, Government of Canada policies and positions, Human rights.   July 28, 2003 Mr. Fraser Reilly-King NGO Working Group on the EDC Halifax Initaitive 104-153 Chapel Street Ottawa, Ontario K1N 1H5 Dear Mr. Reilly-King: Thank you for your letter of May 16, 2003, concerning the Three Gorges Hydroelectric Project in China. I regret the delay in replying to you.   Read more ...