(November 18, 1991) Dai Qing, a former political prisoner who is one of China’s most famous women journalists, was detained this weekend while trying to arrange to see U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, sources here said Sunday.
U.S. wins no concessions in Beijing
(November 18, 1991) Two dissidents arrested without meeting Baker
Public debate of odious debts
(November 12, 1991) View speech
Fall 1991 Campaign Letter
October 1991 Campaign Letter
I am extremely proud of our efforts over the past 10 years to reform the World Bank, CIDA, and other international financial agencies. Many of our supporters – and you may be among them – have been writing letters to these institutions, and we have had our share of successes. Environmentally disastrous projects in the Amazon, in Africa, in Thailand, and in China have either been canceled or postponed because of thousands of letters from `those Canadians`.
The World Bank is going green…
(October 13, 1991) A look at…lending to the Third World.
Chinese dam collapses killing close to three hundred
On the night of August 27, 1993, a dam burst high in a remote province of China, sending torrents of water crashing down on nearby villages. Close to 300 people were killed and thousands were made homeless.
Probe Alert September 1991
India’s Subernarekha River – whose name means “streak of gold” – flows through a region rich in forests, iron, copper, gold, and other minerals. Along its course it provides water for the Ho, the Santhal, the Bhumij, the Gond, and other tribes.
Probe Alert Summer 1991
World Bank threatens fisheries – food for millions – in Mekong basin
A lending legacy
(1991) The results of more than 40 years of World Bank/IMF investment in Thailand are still uncertain.
Probe Alert Spring 1991
New green fund: more green-wash
A Saturday morning call
(February 12, 1991) Beijing – The telephone call from an agitated Chinese woman came at 9:30 Saturday morning, November 16. At that moment, 3 miles away in the Great Hall at Tiananmen Square, Secretary of State James Baker was sitting down to talk about human rights with China’s prime minister, Li Peng, and 7,500 miles away in Washington D.C., the Senate was passing a unanimous resolution on deploring China’s mistreatment of journalists in general and one in particular: an outspoken ex-political prisoner, 50 year old Dai Qing.
1991 Campaign Letter
For years ago, Canadian government officials went to Thailand and – according to documents we obtained through Access to Information laws – made a secret deal with the Tai government: Let Canadian taxpayers give you a free food irradiator, using foreign aid funds, the officials said, and we will promise to import your irradiated food into Canada.
1991 Campaign Letter
Foreign aid institutions have fuelled the Third World’s debt crisis devastated the global environment. The time has come to shut them down.
Probe Alert Winter 1990
Canadian dam builders plan to drown subarctic wilderness
Patricia Adams
Dai Qing
Fan Xiao
Lawrence Solomon
Mu Lan
Probe International
Lisa Peryman
Probe Media
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