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Greece: “Troika bailout conditions are undermining human rights,” warns UN Expert on Debt and Human Rights
25 May
Geneva (1 May 2013) – The prospects of a significant number of Greeks securing an adequate standard of living in line with international human rights standards have been compromised by bailout conditions imposed by Greece’s international lenders, United Nations Independent Expert on foreign debt (...)
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UN Expert on Debt and Human Rights Mission to Greece - 22-26 April 2013
End of Mission Statement
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Cephas Lumina
25 May
Athens, 26 April 2013
Today marks the end of my official fact-finding visit to Greece which began on 22 April. I would like to thank the Government of Greece for inviting me to undertake a mission to the country and for its full cooperation during the visit.
The primary purpose of my visit to (...)
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Destructive Development: the ADB’s Privatization Agenda
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People’s front against IFI’s
12 May
In the name of poverty reduction and sustainable development, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is promoting the transfer of natural wealth and public assets to private companies in India through loans and Technical Assistance (TA) in the transportation, energy, urban development, agriculture, (...)
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Is the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Accountable?
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People’s front against IFI’s
12 May
Since the emergence of International Financial Institutions (IFIs), the questions about their transparency and accountability have been sternly shielded and severely evaded by their founders. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) was established as a regional public multilateral development (...)
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Water crisis in Asia: ADB’s Grand Design to Alienate People from Commons
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People’s front against IFI’s
12 May
The Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s 2001 water policy loudly proclaims ‘Water for All’. With these words, the Bank takes pride in sharing its regional vision for this sector. It further pledges to put its finance and ‘knowledge’ to rescue the countries in Asia-Pacific. However, it is important to (...)
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Agriculture, Water and Climate Change Nexus: ADB’s New Found Mantra for Resource Exploitation
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People’s front against IFI’s
12 May
While the world is witnessing the spectacle of emerging Asia, this comes as a tremendous stress to its cultivators and small farmers. A decrease of arable land with increasing number of stomachs depending on the produce, an exhaustion of finite natural resources, freshwater and natural (...)
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The International Situation and CADTM action between 2009 and 2013
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Éric Toussaint
9 May
In the preamble to the CADTM International Political Charter adopted in Belém (Brazil) in January 2009, we state:
In 1989, the Bastille Appeal was launched in Paris. It invited popular movements throughout the world to unite in demanding the immediate and unconditional cancellation of the debt (...)
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IMF and World Bank hold their Spring Meetings making gloomy days for development
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Bodo Ellmers,
Jeroen Kwakkenbos
6 May
The Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank just ended in Washington DC and brought little promise of sunny days ahead for development.
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What to do about the debt and the euro?
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Michel Husson,
Daniel Albarracín,
Nacho Álvarez Peralta,
Bibiana Medialdea,
Francisco Louça,
Mariana Mortagua,
Stavros Tombazos,
Giorgos Galanis,
Ozlem Onaran,
Manolo Garí,,
Antonio Sanabria,
Jorge Fonseca,
Teresa Pérez del Río,
Lidia Rekagorri Villar
5 May
The fight against the debt and austerity is the task of the day, such as fair measures defending the wages and pensions as well as the social services and common goods. In short, a popular strategy for a left government must be ready to do whatever necessary for this democratic fight. We stand (...)
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The World Social Forum and its governance: a multi-headed monster
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Francine Mestrum
27 April
The 12th World Social Forum (WSF) took place in Tunis, two years after the ‘Arab spring’ that put an end to the old regime and put into place a government headed by Ennahda (‘renaissance movement’), an islamist political party.
The Forum was a real success, politically and in terms of (...)