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At the end of March, a report coming out of a ten month Canadian government-led roundtable was completed, which “lays out recommendations for a CSR [Corporate Social Responsibility] framework of good conduct for Canadian mining, oil and gas companies operating abroad… If implemented, the CSR framework would establish standards and reporting obligations for Canadian companies. It would also create an ombudsman office to investigate and assess complaints, and to evaluate compliance with the standards. The report lays out procedures for withholding government services to companies in cases of serious non-compliance, while also supporting the development of tools to promote good …

A Very Canadian Coup d’état in Haiti
Press for Conversion! Magazine, March 2007
Published by COAT

Here is the most recent edition of Press for Conversion!, a Magazine by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. This is the most comprehensive resource I’ve been able to find that focuses on Canada’s role in Haiti, so I’ve posted it (with permission) in it’s entirety. Each Section that begins with a link is a pdf file - Ahni.

Haiti’s 2004 Coup and its Aftermath
In early 2004, a U.S.-funded, trained and armed paramilitary force of former CIA-backed death squads and soldiers from the …

Cucapa camp report: The first month
detodos-paratodos.blogspot.com
March 28, 2007

Constructing Spaces for Exchanges
Together with the adherent family to The Other Campaign and members of the community it was decided to construct a space for the camp as well as for use of the community.

We first leveled an area of 40 by 45 meters using a tractor that by it’s age and condition didn’t provide the results we anticipated but it was good enough to be able to finish the rest by hand and then add a layer of 4 – 6 inches of sand to provide a cushion for those camping …

EcoWellness: Race and hazardous waste
By Christine dell’amore, UPI
March 22, 2007

WASHINGTON, March 22 (UPI) — Twenty years after a landmark study proved a link between hazardous-waste sites and minority neighborhoods, the phenomenon has only settled deeper into U.S. towns and cities, a new report says.

What’s more, the racial differences are much greater than previously thought, according to “Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty,” a preliminary anniversary report released today. The full report will be made public on April 22, Earth Day.

The updated report found more than 9 million Americans live in neighborhoods within about 2 miles of the 413 commercial …

The Pacific region has long been a favourite target of gene hunters, unethical bio-researchers and ‘patent bottom trawlers’ looking to profit from its unique flora, fauna - and human beings.

In the last few years, a number of disconcerting events have occurred in the Pacific Islands. Among them, T-Cells from the Hagahai Tribe in Papua New Guinea were illegally obtained against the will and traditions of the Hagahai - which can now be purchased on the internet for 216 Dollars.

Aswell, in 2002 Cook Islanders were almost subjects of an experiment to transplant pig parts into humans. The author of the article …

Failed: 20 Years of Sustainable Development Effort
International Institute for Environment and Development
http://www.iied.org

Sustainable development is dead! Long live sustainable development!

A 20-year international effort to put the planet on a path to sustainable development has been woefully inadequate and will need a radical rethink if it is to achieve its aims, says a report published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

The report was written by Steve Bass, a senior fellow at IIED and former chief environment advisor at the UK government’s Department for International Development. It is being released to mark the 20th anniversary of the influential …

Land and Natural Resource Alienation in Cambodia
www.focusweb.org
March 8. 2007

Land is the repository of memory and keeps traces of the past in the absence of a strong written tradition. It is perceived as an open book from which anyone can read and learn about local history: place names, old roads, legends and stories attached to places. For local people, bulldozing the landscape is seen as erasing their history, and disturbing social organisations and traditions - Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South, December, 2006.

Ask any Cambodian what s/he considers the foundation of society and life in Cambodia and the answer …