(August 30, 2004) Senator John Edwards said a Kerry-Edwards U.S. administration would bring other nations into the postwar effort by asking them to forgive Iraq’s debt and help rebuild the war-ravaged economy.
Inquiry regarding Argentine sovereign debt bonds
(August 30, 2004) Considering the potentially grave consequences of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) authorizing the massive trading of a Mega-Swap of Argentine Sovereign Debt Bonds.
Court ruling tightens net on Pinochet
(August 28, 2004) Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is a step closer to being tried for atrocities committed under his 1973-1990 regime after a court stripped him of immunity from prosecution.
Prosecute Pinochet
(August 27, 2004) Augusto Pinochet must have thought he was in the clear when he gave a television interview to a Cuban-American journalist last year. Chile’s Supreme Court had ruled him mentally unfit to stand trial in 2002, and it looked as if he would never have to face justice for the crimes of his reign from 1973 to 1990.
In Kenya, corruption fight sign of times
(August 27, 2004) Visitors arriving at Nairobi’s international airport are greeted with this sign at passport control: "No bribes should be given or accepted whether demanded or not.
U.N.’s big debt to Iraq
(August 26, 2004) It was supposed to be oil for food in Iraq, but the largest humanitarian program ever launched by the United Nations turns out to have been grease for friends – Saddam Hussein’s friends.
Banks ‘laundered’ Iraq oil for food payments
(August 26, 2004) Two European banks were yesterday accused by the US Treasury Department of helping Saddam Hussein launder money stolen from the UN oil-for-food programme.
Terrorism and rising crime hound Iraq, says Allawi
(August 25, 2004) Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi called for Iraq’s national debt – the highest in the world as a percentage of GDP – to be largely forgiven "so that future generations of Iraqis are not made to suffer for the wrongs of the Saddam regime.
U.N. chief backs body to compensate war victims
(August 23, 2004) U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan backs a permanent U.N. body that would provide reparations for victims of wars.
Schroeder pledges to help rebuild Iraq
(August 18, 2004) Chancellor Schroeder said today that the German government is ready to "substantially" reduce Iraq’s debts to Germany to ensure more funds were put to the post-war reconstruction of the country.
Shady Acres
(August 16, 2004) Richard Bentley, the 18th-century English scholar, once observed that "no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself." It is so, too, with corporations. A striking demonstration of this is Acres International.
Review of the Fund’s strategy on overdue financial obligations
(August 13, 2004) In a review of countries in protracted arrears to the IMF, the Fund said emergency post-conflict funding for Iraq would be approved once it had paid off an $80 million debt to the IMF.
Freed migrant leader He Kechang still fighting for justice
(August 11, 2004) He Kechang, jailed for three years for appealing to top Chinese leaders about corruption in the Three Gorges resettlement operation, has been released and is still struggling on behalf of people uprooted by the dam.
Iraq: UN panel says oil-for-food probe to take much longer than expected
(August 10, 2004) The head of an independent panel investigating corruption in the United Nations’ "oil-for-food" program for Iraq says it may take another year to produce its main findings.
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project: bribery on a massive scale
(August 8, 2004) Many of the legal aspects of corruption have now been thoroughly and recently tested in the Lesotho courts, challenging the ways in which corruption is detected and punished in different parts of the world.
Probe International 