(June 19, 2001) Complaint to the Ombudsman’s office at the IFC made on behalf of members of NAPE and members of the Save Bujagali Crusade. Members from both institutions come from various parts of Uganda and the Bujagali area.
Lesotho tries to end corruption culture
(June 19, 2001) Multinational companies are about to go on trial in Lesotho accused of paying huge bribes to a local official, a case virtually unprecedented in Africa.
R10,4m bribery trail led to Sole court told
(June 17, 2001) Ephraim Sole, the former chief executive of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA), rose in Maseru’s high court and pleaded "not guilty" to 16 criminal charges of bribery and two counts of fraud before Judge Brandon Cullinan.
Row delays Laos hydroelectric dam at least a year
(June 8, 2001) Delayed: NT2 won’t be ready until at least December 2007.
Government Secrecy Threatens Canadian Democracy
(June 1, 2001) Probe International argues that the Canadian government’s growing predilection for secrecy is alarming. Probe recommends that the disclosure of information on public interest grounds should prevail over corporate interests.
Reckless Lending: How Canada’s Export Development Corporation Puts People and Environment at Risk
(May 15, 2001) The Senegal River Basin Development Project, a US$1-billion dam project, completed in 1988, has already brought economic ruin, malnutrition, and disease to hundreds of thousands of West African farmers, and is expected to spread more misery when it starts generating power in 2002.
Export Development Corporation needs to strengthen its environmental practices and be more open
(May 15, 2001) Auditor General of Canada says that EDC needs to address gaps in its environmental review process and to be more open with the public, particularly concerning environmentally risky projects.
Letter: Citizens groups world-wide show support for Thailand’s decision to open Pak Mun dam gates
(May 6, 2001) Letter to Thailand’s newly-elected Prime Minister, supporting his decision to open the Pak Mun dam gates to try to restore seasonal fish migrations between the Mekong and the Mun rivers, signed by 96 organizations, including PI.
Indigenous leaders from the Americas protest Export Development Corporation trade financing
(April 3, 2001) 130,000 Canadians sign letters addressed to Minister Pettigrew calling for tighter regulation of the Export Development Corporation.
NGO letter to World Bank Executive Directors
(May 29, 2001) NGO sign-on letter on outstanding issues with the Bujagali falls dam in Uganda, which went to every Executive Director of the World Bank, 29 May 2001.
Exaggerations of World Commission on Dams: Brazil’s water resources secretary vs IRN
(March 27, 2001) Mr. Raymundo Garrido, Water Resources Secretary of the Brazilian federal Environment Ministry, and Glenn Switkes, Latin America Program Director of International Rivers Network, debate the World Commission on Dams in Brazil’s Gazeta Mercantil.
Chixoy dam affected people – seek reparations
(March 14, 2001) A message of solidarity from the Maya-Achi.
US Congressional Commission Pushes for Deeper IMF, World Bank Reforms
(March 8, 2001) Members of a US congressional commission which last year recommended radical reforms at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have urged the new Bush administration to push for deeper reforms.
Statement from Brazilian Movement of Dam-Affected People
(February 9, 2001) MAB reflects on WCD: one thing became clear to us that it is not only in our country, and not only in our continent that dams have been build against the interests of dam-affected populations.
Poor are sold down the river
(December 7, 2000) This article is by longtime Probe colleague and U.S. engineering consultant Phil Williams, a contributor to three Probe International books — Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don’t Want You to Know (1990), Yangtze!Yangtze! by Dai Qing (1994), and The River Dragon Has Come (1998, co-editor) — and founder of the Berkeley-based International Rivers Network.
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