(January 19, 2002) Environmental groups in the Central American country of Belize are preparing to seek an injunction against Newfoundland-based Fortis Inc. to stop all construction at its proposed Chalillo dam site.
Launch of report on Argentina and International Insolvency
(January 14, 2002) The Jubilee Debt Programme at New Economics Foundation launches a new report on Argentina and international insolvency: “Chapter 9/11? Resolving International Debt Crises – the Jubilee Framework for international insolvency”.
Chapter 9/11?
(January 1, 2002) Resolving international debt crises – the Jubilee Framework for international insolvency
Fair and transparent arbitration on debt
(January 1, 2002) There is a need for Arbitration on specific types of Loans or debt in particular the odious and illegitimate debts, which are categorised to include the following: Debts that cannot be serviced without causing harm to people and communities.
Out of the vicious cycle of debt
(January 1, 2002) Debt cancellation is all the more legitimate in that it can be justified by several legal arguments, including the notions of "odious debt."
Why should they pay? (Letter to the Editor)
(December 28, 2001) Millions of black South Africans, who lack basic services such as housing, decent schools and hospitals, must toil daily to pay back the billions of dollars borrowed by former apartheid regimes to oppress them.
Fight for the right to say no
(December 22, 2001) SOME large dams just shouldn’t be built.
Concrete Jungle: Dam set to go ahead despite danger
(December 22, 2001) What is the point of gauging the environmental impact of a dam before it is built? Not a lot, if a row over a proposed Chalillo hydroelectric scheme in Belize is anything to go by.
Letter to the Editor: Before it’s too dam late
(December 21, 2001) The director of the Belize Alliance of Conservation NGOs writes a letter to the editor of Newfoundland’s Telegram.
Robert Kennedy Jr. to visit Belize: Mission to stop Canadian rainforest dam
(December 17, 2001) Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will travel to Belize this week
to support citizens opposing a Canadian-backed hydro dam that will
drown a last rainforest refuge for Central American wildlife.
Paris Club reschedules Nigeria’s debt
(December 10, 2001) The Paris Club of Creditors, to which Nigeria owes about $22bn, has rescheduled the repayment over 18 years good news for a country with external debt totalling about $28bn.
Wanted: victims of apartheid
(December 10, 2001) A US attorney is seeking plaintiffs to sue Swiss banks which financed South Africa’s former apartheid regime, a Swiss newspaper said on Sunday.
Lesotho, South Africa, World Bank clash looming over ‘crucial’ corruption case
(December 10, 2001) The Lesotho and South African governments are headed for a clash with the World Bank after the financial institution reneged on a promise to fund the kingdom’s legal costs in a crucial corruption case.
SA and kingdom on collision course with World Bank
(December 9, 2001) The Lesotho and South African governments are headed for a clash with the World Bank after the financial institution decides not to fund the kingdom’s legal costs in a crucial corruption case.
Letter to the Editor: Fortis plan threatens endangered species
(December 7, 2001) Newfoundlanders speak out against Fortis’s plans to wipe out Belize wildlife.This is our business as long as Fortis is in Belize, writes Colin MacDonald of St. John’s.
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