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Il y a 22 years 5 months. Corporate accountability, Human rights, Transparency and disclosure. Final Report on the G6B (Group of 6 billion) People’s Summit
The Halifax Initiative participated in the G6B People’s Summit. We assisted in bringing to the Summit two Southern activists, with whom we work - Tundu Lissu, a Tanzanian activist with the Lawyers Environmental Action Team, to discuss the impacts of foreign direct investment in mining, and Virginia Setshedi, a South African activist with the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee. As well, Pam Foster, Coordinator, participated on three panels, presenting on financial liberalization, the environment and the G8.
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Il y a 22 years 5 months. . Activists struggle to be heard
(PDF file) - [Calgary Hearld]
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Il y a 22 years 5 months. globalization, Government of Canada policies and positions. Commentator barred from G8 media site
Coalition leader can't imagine what threat she presents to RCMP
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Il y a 22 years 5 months. Domestic legislation, IFI policies and positions. Money, money everywhere, but nary a drop to drink
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Il y a 22 years 5 months. Government of Canada policies and positions. 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.
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Il y a 22 years 5 months. . 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.
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Il y a 22 years 5 months. . 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.
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Il y a 22 years 5 months. . Civil society in G7 countries charge finance ministers with saying little and doing even less to support the poor
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Il y a 22 years 5 months. . The World Bank has released its long awaited draft policy on forests. It severely weakens the existing Operational (OP) Policy on Forests of 1993. Environmental group pressure led to the current policy that bans Bank funding of logging in primary moist tropical forests. Over the past several years, the World Bank has sought to resume financing of "sustainable forest management" activities in the World's dwindling primary forests, particularly in the tropics.
Letter signed on by NGOs.
Mr. James D. Wolfensohn
President
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20433
Re: Draft Operational Policy on Forests
Dear Mr. Wolfensohn,
We are writing to you to express our dismay and rejection of the current draft OP on Forests which was placed on the World Bank's website on June 10, 2002.
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Il y a 22 years 5 months. . G-8 opponents speak to concerned citizens
( PDF file ) [ The St. Paul Journal ]
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