(June 20, 2006) Thank you very much to FERN and to the European Commission. It is an honour for me to be here to discuss this very important subject – how to prevent more unpayable Third World debts being created by the world’s export credit agencies.
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Hope for a thirsty city: Rainwater harvesting in Beijing
(June 20, 2006) While the central government hangs its hopes on huge river diversion projects in the south and city residents carefully monitor their taps, a third alternative does exist for easing Beijing’s water woes: rainwater utilization.
Export credit debt prevention
(June 20, 2006) Three steps to protecting future generations from export credit agencies.
Evaluation echoes civil society critique of World Bank-IMF debt relief efforts
(June 19, 2006) Countries in the midst of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative have seen a worsening of their debt and fiscal management, claims a new World Bank evaluation; other countries went back into debt trouble after completing the programme.
Norwegians push for examination of illegitimate debt
(June 19, 2006) Norway has reportedly established a $20,000 fund for the World Bank to undertake a study of odious and illegitimate debt.
Myanmar minorities fear being dammed and damned
(June 18, 2006) The 2,800 km-long Salween (Nu) River, southeast Asia’s longest undammed waterway, is fast becoming a front line in one of the world’s longest-running conflicts – the war between the Burmese junta and the region’s ethnic Karen people.
Cleanup efforts slow toxic spill in China
(June 18, 2006) Chinese authorities said a toxic coal tar spill flowing down a northern river had slowed as they rushed to stop it from reaching a reservoir that serves a city of 10 million and is a standby source for the 2008 Olympics.
Clean-up under way to save river from coal tar
(June 17, 2006) Clean-up efforts were under way on Friday to control coal tar contamination in a river in North China’s Hebei province, which is endangering a reservoir supporting Baoding, a city with a population of more than 10 million.
Help wanted to protect China’s Nu River
(June 15, 2006) The International Rivers Network (IRN) is appealing for help to keep the Nu (Salween) River in China flowing freely. The river is one of only two undammed rivers in China.
Foreign-funded nonprofits under investigation in China
Yu Xiaogang, of Kunming-based Green Watershed, said the intensive probes of many foreign-funded groups launched by the Chinese government might not be bad if they end up convincing the authorities that most NGOs have no ulterior political motives.
Chinese rush to clean up coal-tar spill
(June 15, 2006) Crews armed with cotton, sponges, straw and activated carbon soaked up toxic coal tar from a northern Chinese river Thursday, hurrying to absorb the spill before it reaches a city of 10 million people.
The Story of the Dahe Dam
A fascinating, detailed account of the years-long struggle for redress
pursued by thousands of people who were plunged deeper into poverty by
the construction of the Dahe dam. Many of the farmers uprooted for that
dam, built 30 years ago on a Yangtze tributary in what is now Chongqing
municipality, are being moved again for the Three Gorges project. "To
learn more about what goes on behind the scenes in China, this book
about the ruinous consequences of one small dam is an excellent place
to start," Dai Qing writes in her introduction to the English
PRESS RELEASE Probe International calls on foreign funders to protest attacks on Three Gorges petitioners
(June 13, 2006) A savage attack on Three Gorges migrant representative Fu Xiancai, reported by Human Rights in China on June 12, has left him with a fractured neck and possible permanent paralysis.
China Three Gorges activist beaten – rights group
(June 13, 2006) China Three Gorges activist beaten – rights group Beijing: A Chinese activist who has spent years petitioning over resettlement terms for those displaced by the giant Three Gorges Dam was beaten up just after being called in by police, a rights group said on Tuesday.
Human error cited in Fujian floods
(June 12, 2006) As torrential rain that has caused scores of deaths continues to lash southeast China, flood refugees in Fujian province say their own lives were put at risk by dam operators who opened the floodgates of 10 reservoirs without warning.
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