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Il y a 15 years 5 months. . L’Initiative d’Halifax est une coalition canadienne de groupes œuvrant dans les domaines du développement, de l’environnement, de la foi religieuse, des droits de la personne et du travail. Read more ...
Il y a 15 years 5 months. . Approuvé par le comité de coordination – Septembre 2008
Note : Dans ce document, le masculin est utilisé pour faciliter la lecture et comprend le féminin.
Préambule
L’Initiative d’Halifax (IH) reconnaît que la transparence et l’obligation de rendre compte sont des éléments essentiels d’une saine gouvernance institutionnelle. Par conséquent, l’Initiative d’Halifax s’engage à respecter les principes du présent code de déontologie dans toutes ses activités et dans l’ensemble de son fonctionnement.
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Il y a 15 years 5 months. . La coalition de l’Initiative d’Halifax a été formée dans le contexte d’un mouvement international d’organisations non gouvernementales intéressées à évaluer le rôle et le bilan des institutions de Bretton Woods au moment de leur 50e anniversaire.
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Il y a 15 years 6 months. Corporate accountability. Tensions build as UN conference on crisis postponed
June 24-26 now mark the new dates for the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impacts on Development, postponed from the beginning of the month as many European heads of state had said they could not participate because of European Parliamentary elections. The postponement is welcome relief to a process that began last October and has been tense ever since, exposing clear lines between those who favour a truly global response to the current crisis with a real rethink of how the global economy is governed vs. the newly crowned G-20 and their proposal for a status quo plus approach.
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Il y a 15 years 6 months. . Freely circulating and unregulated capital destabilizes democracy. This is why regulatory mechanisms are necessary. One such mechanism is the Tobin tax, named after the American economics Nobel prize winner. James Tobin proposed, in 1978, to tax, at a low rate, all the transactions on the currency markets in order to discourage speculation and, at the same time, provide the international community with resources.
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Il y a 15 years 6 months. . Click here for a list of addresses for action alerts. Read more ...
Il y a 15 years 6 months. . The World Bank and other donors have vowed to fight corruption, which undermines development and democracy. Yet their focus is consistently only on corrupt acts perpetrated by poor country governments, when it actually takes two to tango.
"There is always somebody who pays, and international business is generally the main source of corruption", said none other than the billionaire financier, George Soros.
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Il y a 15 years 6 months. Corporate accountability. Say NO to Alumysa!!
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