21 years 1 month ago.   .   New Kind of Apartheidhttp://www.halifaxinitiative.org/updir/tour_0001.jpg   Read more ...

21 years 1 month ago.   .   Private Interest and the Public Good Tela sits astride a slow, meandering river of the same name. It looks out over a rim of white-sand beaches onto Tela Bay. A warm Caribbean sun forces you to lather up with sunscreen,and nolch back your pace a couple of strides per minute as you stroll around this small Honduran town. A mixed population of Garifuna -or more prop­erly Garinagu - a people with a unique blend of Carib Indian and African roots, and folk of Spanish ancestry call this century- old, clapboard,. tin-roofed port town home. It holds about the same pop­ulation as the whole of the Yukon.   Read more ...

21 years 1 month ago.   IFI policies and positions.   Where the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative for debt cancellation is failing.   Read more ...

21 years 1 month ago.   IFI policies and positions.   The “Private Interests vs. Public Goods” tour aims to bring Southern activists working on privatization issues at the local or national level to share their stories and strategies with Canadians facing the privatization of health care, education, energy, water and other public services. Tour Report Tour Evaluation Summary Tour Events Summary MP 'brief' on the tour Participants' Bios (MS-Word file) Press Release Event Poster (PDF file) Get a copy of "Empty Promises - The IMF, the World Bank, and the Planned Failures of Global Capitalism", which includes over 30 brief articles detailing everything you wanted to know about these two institutions.  For press articles resulting from the tour go to the Media button on the navigation bar, to Press Responses to Structural Adjustment.   Read more ...