14 years 12 months ago.   Corporate accountability, Domestic legislation, EDC regulation, Government accountability, Government of Canada policies and positions, Human rights, IFI governance, Tax Justice.   Corporate Accountability Hearings Heat Up Things were hopping this month in Parliamentary hearings on Bill-300, An Act respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries (see IU February 2009). The Bill was presented before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development by MP John McKay on May 25. This month Committee members heard riveting testimony from diverse witnesses (see JUST THE FACTS). Speakers included: Romina Picolotti, former Secretary of the Environment for Argentina and winner of the prestigious Sophie Prize for environment and sustainable development; Stephen Hunt, former mine worker and current Director at the United Steelworkers union; Marketa Evans, the federal government’s new Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor; and mining companies Barrick Gold, Goldcorp and Kinross.   Read more ...

15 years 2 weeks ago.   Corporate accountability, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty.   November 11, 2009 Dominique Strauss-Kahn Managing Director International Monetary Fund, 700 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20431 Dear Mr. Strauss-Kahn: Re: Request for civil society participation in IMF study on how the financial sector can help pay for the bailouts  In September, the Group of 20 (G20), at their summit in Pittsburgh, mandated the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with preparing a report ahead of the next G20 summit in June 2010 to consider “how the financial sector could make a fair and substantial contribution toward paying for any burdens associated with government interventions to repair the banking system.”   Read more ...

15 years 2 weeks ago.   Environment, Human rights, Millennium Development Goals.   In June 2010, the Halifax Initiative launched the first in a series of radio documentary -type podcasts under the rubric of "Definitely NOT the G8" just ahead of the 2010 Group of Eight (G8) and Twenty (G20) meetings in Huntsville and Toronto, Canada on June 25-27 2010. The podcasts have three goals: to raise awareness in Canada about progressive social, economic and environmental justice issues in the international development and finance arena that are often missing from, or disregarded in, official discussions and the mainstream media;   Read more ...

15 years 2 weeks ago.   ECA Reform, EDC reform, globalization, Government accountability, HIPC initiative, IFI, IFI accountability, IFI governance, IFI policies and positions, IFI reform, Poverty, Sustainability, Tax Justice, Transparency and disclosure.   Rules and policies - Raising and retaining funds Moderator: Teresa Healy, Senior Researcher, Social and Economic Policy Department, Canadian Labour Congress   Read more ...