(December 1, 2000) I am writing to urge you, as the ADB Executive Director for Canada, to immediately suspend loan disbursements to the Samut Prakarn astewater Management Project in Thailand and launch an inspection panel investigation into the violation of ADB policies, the contravention of Thai law, and allegations of corruption in connection with the project.
Letter to ADB urging investigation into Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project
(December 1, 2000) Re: ADB-financed Samut Prakarn Wastewater Management Project, Thailand
PRESS RELEASE: Canadian aid agency pays engineering firm to justify dam construction in Belize
(November 21, 2000) Hydro scheme threatens jaguar, Scarlet Macaw habitat.
ADB drops Se San 3 hydro dam
(October 1, 2000) The Government of Viet Nam has formally advised ADB that it no longer requires ADB’s assistance to proceed with the Se San 3 Hydropower project.
Colombian Paramilitaries Suspected of Murders of Four Indigenous Leaders and 21 Abductions
(September 21, 2000) IRN Calls for Halt to US Military Aid to Colombia
Asian Development Bank defers model hydro scheme in Vietnam
(September 11, 2000) Dam tragedy fuels downstream objections. Reports of at least five drownings as a result of massive flooding caused by Vietnam’s second largest hydro dam have prompted the Asian Development Bank to postpone financing of another dam on the same river.
Mekong basin dams claim lives, cause poverty, Bank warned
(June 27, 2000) The Asian Development Bank is being urged to defer a decision on funding of a controversial 240 megawatt hydroelectric scheme on the Se San River in Vietnam until more detailed studies on likely impacts have been completed.
Haiti in life and debt struggle
(June 17, 2000) President René Préval signed a petition calling on international creditors to annul Haiti’s swelling $1.2bn (£800m) debt. Forty percent of Haiti’s debt was incurred under Duvalier family misrule, when loans were regularly skimmed by regime cronies.
Letter to ADB from Probe International, Re: Klong Daan wastewater treatment project
(June 16, 2000) Probe International urges ADB to respond to concerns raised by Thai groups last month about ADB-financed projects and programs in Thailand.
Letter to ADB from Probe International,
(June 16, 2000) Probe International urges ADB to respond to concerns raised by Thai groups last month about ADB-financed projects and programs in Thailand.
Letter to ADB President Tadao Chino from People’s Network of 38 Organisations
(June 13, 2000) We see the disasters caused by ADB funding and loan conditions that cause severe impacts on poor people, farmers, labourers, and the resources of the country.
‘I think the EDC should be shut down’: Q&A
(May 19, 2000) Paul McKay discusses the EDC with Patricia Adams, Executive Director of Probe International.
NGOs protest against environmental impacts of Asian Development Bank projects
(May 12, 2000) More than 1,000 people met in the Thai city of Chiang Mai prior to the annual general meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to protest against ADB projects and to highlight the bank’s undemocratic methods of operating.
ADB protest concludes peacefully
(May 9, 2000) The anti-Asian Development Bank protest dispersed yesterday afternoon without violence, a few hours after the bank’s 33rd annual meeting closed.
Poor exempt from water tax
(May 8, 2000) A long police line seals the entrance to a Chiang Mai hotel as activists protest against the ADB meeting yesterday. Talks to set criteria, but NGOs sceptical.
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