Globalization
- Sat Apr 12 2008
World Bank "playing both sides of climate crisis"
A new study released by Institute for Policy Studies casts further doubts on the World Bank's ability to stay neutral in the global politics of climate change. "It is making money off of causing the climate crisis and then turning around and claiming to solve it," said Janet Redman.
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Globalization
- Thu Apr 10 2008
The World Bank's carbon deals
It was the first day in a long week of the consultations at the World Bank’s Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. The topic that drew so much attention: Climate change and the Bank’s plans for plunging its fingers deeper into the expanding multi-billion-dollar carbon-trading pie.
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Sustainable Development
- Thu Apr 03 2008
World bank climate profiteering
The World Bank has seized upon the immense challenges climate change poses to humanity and is now front and center in the complicated, international world of carbon finance. It can turn the dirtiest carbon credits into gold.
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Social Development
- Fri Mar 28 2008
Call of La Via Campesina for April 17th
The 17th of April is the International Peasant's Struggle Day, established after the massacre of 19 landless peasants belonging to the Landless Movement (MST) in Brazil on the 17th of April 1996 during the second conference of La Via Campesina in Tlaxcala Mexico.
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Economy and Financial Affairs
- Wed Mar 19 2008
Workers will pay the costs of global crisis
International union leaders warned representatives of governments and employers, and World Bank President Robert Zoellick, that the burden of the current financial turmoil will fall on the world’s workers.
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World Peace and Security
- Wed Mar 05 2008
Palestine: nowhere to run to
The United Nations defines 'massacre' as the death of 50 or more civilians. Operation Hot Winter claimed 60 lives on its first day, and so far at least 126 killed, among them 39 children and babies, and 12 women, and 380 injured. Hundreds of houses have been destroyed.
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Economy and Financial Affairs
- Tue Mar 04 2008
Launch of Independent Citizens’ Debt Audit Commission in the Philippines
Created in response to a petition initiated by the People Against Illegitimate Debt (PAID!) movement, the Commission was launched three days after the mammoth interfaith rally in Makati City against the alleged role of the First Family and corruption in the overpriced ZTE national broadband network deal.
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Trade and Regional Integration
- Fri Feb 22 2008
The story of a Dutch letterbox which could cost Bolivia a fortune
Telecom Italia's case against Bolivia at a secretive World Bank tribunal, ICSID, heralds an increasingly pro-corporate approach against southern countries under the aegis of the EU's Global Europe project.
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Globalization
- Mon Feb 18 2008
World Social Forum strategy debate: open consultation
In late March, the WSF International Council will meet in Nigeria. Contributions to this debate must be sent up to the deadline of February 29th 2008.
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Environment
/Globalization
- Fri Jan 25 2008
Human rights accountability and the environment
The Human Dignity and Human Rights Caucus demands that States and Corporations close human rights accountability gaps.
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