January 13, 2004 Honorable Robert B. Zoellick United States Trade Representative Room 209A 600 17th Street, NW Washington, DC 20508 Subject: Enhanced Access to Information and Ability to Participate Effectively Dear Ambassador Zoellick: Earlier this fall organizations from a number of countries around the globe met to create a network dedicated to promoting access to … Read More.
January 29, 2004 CIEL supports the American Library Association and others by signing on to a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick urging access to information and transparency in bilateral and regional trade negotiations. In a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, CIEL and others sent letters to the United States Trade Representative … Read More.
January 29, 2004 Statement of the U.S. Alliance for Responsible Trade (also available in Spanish) Intellectual Property in the FTAA: Little Opportunity and Much Risk (also available in Spanish) Statement of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (also available in Spanish)
January 21, 2004 The Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) XI is holding “hearings” with representatives from Member States, civil society and the private sector on 16 January and 23 February 2004. The one-day hearings are designed as vehicle for civil society and the private sector to provide input … Read More.
December 22, 2003 Ms. Sybia Harrison Freedom of Information Act Officer United States Trade Representative 600 17th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20508 Dear Ms. Harrison: Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, Friends of the Earth – U.S., on behalf of itself, the Center for International Environmental Law, Natural … Read More.
December 19, 2003 Ms. Sybia Harrison Freedom of Information Act Officer United States Trade Representative 600 17th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20508 Dear Ms. Harrison: Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, the Center for International Environmental Law, on behalf of itself and Friends of the Earth – US, Natural … Read More.
December 2003 At the Ninth Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (December 10, Milan, Italy), Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC), announced that the ICC is considering filing a claim with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the United States for the harm global warming is … Read More.
December 2003 Summary The Kyoto Protocol is based on a system for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions called cap-and-trade. Cap-and-trade establishes emissions budgets for all participating countries and allows them to trade parts of their budgets with other participating countries. Under Kyoto rules, trading can occur at the governmental level or between private entities. Cap-and-trade … Read More.
October 29, 2003 CIEL is particularly concerned with the legal, environmental, and social ramifications of the proposed BTC Pipeline Project. CIEL’s primary concerns focus on three different realms of the project. First, CIEL finds that the BTC Project’s legal regime is an example of a trend in investment liberalization and protection that undermines democratic structures … Read More.
November 24, 2003 Americas Trade and Sustainable Development Forum INVESTMENT TENT Convened By The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Synthesis of Major Concerns On the Economics of Foreign Investment: Foreign direct investment (FDI) has the potential to increase well being by fostering economic development through transfer of … Read More.
Seminar on Environmental Subsidy Reform – How to Tackle Harmful Subsidies Prague, November 21, 2003 Organized by the European Environment Bureau (EEB) The Seminar on Environmental Subsidy Reform – How to Tackle Harmful Subsidies aims, among other things, at promoting “subsidy reform as an instrument to move towards greater sustainability in a cost-effective way”. … Read More.
October, 2003 The McCain-Lieberman “Climate Stewardship Act (CSA)” is scheduled for a vote in the Senate this Thursday, October 30. “This is the first legislative proposal to deal seriously and comprehensively with the problem of global warming,” said Donald M. Goldberg, Senior Attorney with the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). “We can’t afford to … Read More.
October, 2003 On October 30, 2003, the Senate voted, 43-55, to defeat the McCain-Lieberman “Climate Stewardship Act”. The CSA would have returned emissions of greenhouse gases in most major sectors of the economy to 2000 levels by 2010. It was the first serious attempt in Congress to stem the growth of emissions and grapple … Read More.
November 2003 The International Tribunal for Crimes Committed by Latifundiums in Pará, took place in Belém (Pará, Brazil) from October 27-30, 2003. The Tribunal was held with the objective of drawing national and international attention to the repeated acts of violence and human rights violations committed by latifundiums (large land holders) in the northern Brazilian … Read More.
September 22, 2003 When it was created 10 years ago, the World Bank Inspection Panel (WBIP) was an innovative mechanism for accountability and governance. Most importantly, the panel provides a means for ensuring that World Bank policies and procedures are implemented by addressing the concerns of people who might be affected by Bank projects — … Read More.
September, 2003 CIEL is organizing a session on “Implementing prior informed consent in access agreements in light of the Bonn Guidelines” at the upcoming Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF) in Cancun, Mexico, in September, 1993. The GBF was founded in 1993 by The World Conservation Union (IUCN), the World Resource Institute (WRI), the United Nations Environment … Read More.
September 23, 2003 CIEL joins the many states and environmental groups who have condemned the Bush Administration’s August 28 denial of a petition to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the federal Clean Air Act. At a time when the United States should be joining the world community in taking prompt, … Read More.
September 3, 2003 From September 10-14, 2003, the World Trade Organization (WTO) will meet in Cancun, Mexico. The meeting, held once every two years, will bring together the trade ministers of over 140 countries, will assess progress to date on the Doha round of trade talks (due to conclude by the end of 2004) and … Read More.
August 1, 2003 The Honorable Robert Zoellick United States Trade Representative 600 17th Street N.W. Washington, DC 20508 Dear Ambassador Zoellick: As you know, the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial meeting in Cancun this coming September will decide whether the WTO will undertake negotiations on investment liberalization as part of a package of so-called new … Read More.
September 2003 CIEL and other civil society groups , including IATP, IGTN, Oxfam, PSI, TWN and WWF, call for fair, transparent, and participatory WTO negotiating processes. The Center for International Environmental Law has signed onto a joint NGO letter directed to the Ambassadors at Missions in Geneva, Trade Ministers in capital, the WTO Director General, … Read More.
July 9, 2003 Dear Member of Congress: As Congress prepares to consider the U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), we are writing to convey our concerns regarding the environmental implications of these agreements. We urge Congress to insist that the environmental safeguards in these agreements be strengthened and to reject the use of … Read More.
June, 2003 IPEN Steering Committee’s submission to SAICM The IPEN Steering Committee prepared a paper on a Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) in response to a call for contributions by UNEP on possible draft elements of a SAICM. All submissions received will be summarized in a UNEP paper and presented to the SAICM … Read More.
June, 2003 CIEL, working with the World Wildlife Fund and other environmental and health groups, helps develop a “U.S. Declaration of Independence from Hazardous Chemicals.” The signed declaration will be presented to the European Commission as a statement of U.S. popular support for European efforts to adopt safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals. Click here to … Read More.
June, 2003 For many years, the Pehuenche communities of the Alto BíoBío in southern Chile have been struggling against the construction of hydro-electric dams in their territories that would irreversibly disrupt their indigenous culture and destroy their ancestral lands. The complaint filed with the CAO in July 2002 seeks concrete remedies to resolve outstanding … Read More.
June 13, 2003 Dear Mr. Varma Civil society organizations around the world call on the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) to incorporate the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) into their new Code of Ethics. This call coincides with the 21st Congress of ICOLD being held in Montréal, June 16-20, 2003. As … Read More.
June 27, 2003 CIEL staff organized and contributed to panels addressing trade, investment and the environment in a public symposium in Geneva on June 16 – 18 that convened nearly a thousand participants. The World Trade Organization (WTO) hosted “Challenges Ahead on the Road to Cancun“, a lead-up event to its 5th Ministerial Conference in … Read More.
June 25, 2003 Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick United States Trade Representative 600 17th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20508 Dear Ambassador Zoellick, I write regarding the grant of jurisdiction regarding investment agreements and authorizations contained in the U.S.-Chile and U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). I understand from a letter that the American Bankers Association and other … Read More.
May 6, 2003 We, members of civil society organizations from developing and developed countries, explicitly reject the launch of negotiations on investment and the other Singapore Issues at the Ministerial Conference in Cancun this September. We have gathered from a broad spectrum of civil society groups, including groups working on development, environment, faith-based, social, labor, … Read More.
April 23, 2003 Washington, D.C.: NAFTA’s environmental commission issued a report today that outlines the failure of the United States to enforce U.S. laws against loggers that prohibit the killing of migratory birds. After reviewing two cases in which loggers killed migratory birds or destroyed their eggs and nests, the commission concluded that the failure … Read More.
April 17, 2003 The WTO Services Negotiations – Some Strategic Considerations CIEL staff co-authored this paper for the South Centre, a Geneva based inter-governmental organization that works to reflect the views of the South. This paper forms part of the South Centre’s work to assist developing countries analyze and employ negotiating strategies in their services … Read More.
April 9, 2003 The Honorable George Bush President of the United States of America The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Bush: Tomorrow you will be meeting with the Presidents of Central America to discuss a Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) that you have stated will bring prosperity to … Read More.
March, 2003 Together with other Geneva based NGOs (IATP, Oxfam, PSI, TWN and WWF), CIEL convened a series of meetings addressing possible future WTO rules on investment and other “new issues” (competition, trade facilitation and government procurement) Events addressing the Potential Implications of a WTO Investment Agreement Geneva, March 18-21, 2002 Human rights and … Read More.
Peoples World Water Forum March 21 and 22, 2003, Florence, Italy While governments and the private sector from all over the world convened at the Third World Water Forum in Japan from 16 to 23 March, 2003, a number of civil society organizations, including CIEL, participated in parallel events in order to propose … Read More.
At the World Social Forum held in Porto Alegre, Brazil January 26, 2003 Organized by the Center for International Environmental Law Speakers: Jorge Daniel Taillant, Center for Human Rights and Environment (CEDHA), Argentina Daria Calguire, International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, (ESCR-Net), USA Marcos Orellana, Center for International Environmental Law, Chile Ryan Zinn, … Read More.
February 21, 2003 Mr. Enrique Iglesias President, Inter-American Development Bank 1300 New York Avenue, N.W., E1213 Washington, DC 20577 Dear Mr. Iglesias: The three cases currently before the Independent Investigation Mechanism (IIM) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), i.e., the Yacyreta, Cañabrava, and Termoeléctrica del Golfo cases, are revealing systemic problems with the structure … Read More.
Citizens excluded from $25 million suit against Bolivia for company’s failed water privatization scheme For Immediate Release, February 12, 2003 For more information, please contact: Martin Wagner, Earthjustice (Oakland, CA) 510-550-6714 Marcos Orellana, CIEL (Washington, DC) 202-785-8700 Jim Shultz, The Democracy Center (Bolivia) 011 591 4 429 0725 Washington, DC-The Bechtel Corporation was handed a … Read More.
February 28, 2003 CIEL, in its role on the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee, helped shape TEPAC’s advice letters to Congress on the Free Trade Agreements with Chile and Singapore. In a separate statement attached to the report, CIEL argues that the investment provisions of the agreements are problematic and fail to meet the … Read More.
2003 World Social Forum The Third World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from January 23 – 28, 2003. Around 100,000 participants from over 176 countries attended. CIEL hosted a workshop on Human Rights and the Environment on January 26 from 9 a.m. to noon. Environmental and human rights issues are closely … Read More.
Asian Social Forum 2003 The Asian Social Forum (ASF) was held in Hyderabad, India, from January 2 – 7, 2003, as part of the regional meetings of the World Social Forum. CIEL and the Environmental Justice Initiative organized a workshop at the ASF titled “Environmental Justice: Linking Human Well-Being and the Environment” on January 6, … Read More.
FTAA Negotiations Next Target for Public Access February 3, 2003 The Bush Administration today made public documents revealing U.S. and foreign government positions in trade negotiations concerning the recently completed U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement. The documents offer the public its first view of a trade negotiating process conducted behind closed doors that will have dramatic … Read More.
North America/South Asia Conversation on Environmental Justice December, 2002 In collaboration with the Environmental Justice Initiative and the Ford Foundation, CIEL organized and co-hosted a North America/South Asia Conversation on Environmental Justice from December 2 – 6, 2002 in Sariska, India. Believed to be the first ever of its kind, the conversation was designed to … Read More.
Ruling sets precedent for greater transparency in FTAA and future negotiations December 19, 2003 Washington, DC – A U.S. District Court today ordered the Bush administration to make public documents by revealing U.S. and foreign government positions in trade negotiations with potential impacts on domestic public health, labor, and environmental laws. The court ordered the … Read More.
November 2002 The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), recently concluded in Johannesburg, South Africa, had sustainable energy high on its agenda while global warming was missing in action. This disconnect virtually guaranteed that key decisions would fall short of the mark. The most important decisions were made elsewhere, when China and Russia, the world’s … Read More.
November 5, 2002 The following are the Center for International Environmental Law’s (CIEL’s) comments on the September 25, 2002 Draft “Review of IFC’s Safeguard Policies“. CIEL thanks the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and its Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) office for this opportunity to comment on the Safeguard Policy (SP) Review. For nearly a decade, CIEL has … Read More.
The mini-ministerial in Australia is a step in the wrong direction for the WTO* November 2002 Civil society groups from around the world call upon the 145 WTO member states and their trade ministers to follow transparent and inclusive procedures and reject the use of ‘unofficial’ and exclusive mini-ministerials in the run-up to the … Read More.
October 17, 2002 Dear Member of the Congressional Oversight Group on Trade Policy: We are writing to you in your role as a member of the Congressional Oversight Group (COG) on trade policy to share our views about the proposals for investment provisions in trade agreements that were recently presented orally by the Office … Read More.
September 19, 2002 Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick United States Trade Representative 600 17th St., NW Washington, DC 20508 Dear Ambassador Zoellick: We write regarding the General Treatment provision in the context of negotiations of the upcoming United States-Chile and other free trade agreements and bilateral investment agreements. As you well know, the environmental community … Read More.
September 2002 The World Summit on Sustainable Development was held in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 26 to September 4, 2002. The Law and Communities program participated in several ways during the WSSD. 1) CBPR Panel: The L&C program organized a panel on Community-Based Property Rights held at the WSSD Civil Society Forum on August … Read More.
Statement on investment for the September 2002 WTO Investment Meeting On 16 – 17 September 2002 WTO Members, meeting as the Working Group on the Relationship between Trade and Investment (WGTI), will hold their third formal meeting since the Doha Ministerial Conference. CIEL, IATP and Oxfam are concerned that this meeting constitutes another step … Read More.
August 29, 2002 Contact Info: Soren Ambrose (Washington, DC) 202-285-5836 Martin Wagner, Earthjustice (Oakland, CA) 510-550-6714 Jim Shultz, The Democracy Center (Bolivia) 011 591 4 429 0725/001-591-707-43631, [email protected] Marcos Orellana, CIEL, 202-785-8700 More than three hundred citizens groups from 41 countries presented a petition to a World Bank-affiliated court today, demanding that it allow … Read More.
July 29, 2002 Re: Oppose H.R. 3009, the Fast Track Conference Report Dear Member of Congress: On behalf of the more than one million members of our organizations, we urge you to oppose H.R. 3009, the fast track conference report. Trade agreements should promote environmental stewardship and guard against the weakening of environmental standards. Unfortunately, … Read More.
June 13, 2002 In their June 2002 services negotiating session, WTO Members moved further towards liberalizing trade in services, including energy, transport, tourism, and basic education and health services. WTO Members are likely to initiate a new bargaining phase to increase market access in such services without having conducted a thorough and comprehensive assessment … Read More.
May 2002 Comments on the Revised Chairman’s Paper (Sections I – IX) dated 9 May 2002. Comments on the Paper on the Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development dated 8 May 2002 Comments on the Chairman’s Paper dated 12 February 2002 (for PrepCom3) For more information on the World Summit on Sustaianble Development: www.johannesburgsummit.org
April 30, 2002 Services such as basic health, education or the provision of water – many of which are considered fundamental human rights – are increasingly under threat from certain aspects of the ongoing GATS negotiations. Based upon a CIEL research paper, Public Services International’s magazine FOCUS explains why and how WTO Member governments … Read More.
February 14, 2002 The Bush Administration today released its long-delayed alternative to the Kyoto climate change treaty. The proposal was immediately derided by activists throughout the world as wholly inadequate to deal with the threats of global warming and as an attempt to distract nations from their commitment to Kyoto. The Administration proposes a … Read More.
The Johannesburg Summit 2002: A Call for Action February 2002 Nearly a decade ago, President George H. W. Bush and the leaders of more than 100 other nations made this commitment at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. This Earth Pledge was a recognition of the importance of the environment to our … Read More.
February 2002 Thank you Mr. Chairman for allowing IUCN – the World Conservation Union and CIEL, the Center for International Environmental Law, Europe (CIEL) to take the floor. Regardless of the form and reach that norms and principles that guide the establishment of contracts on the access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge … Read More.
February, 2002 Thank you Mr. Chairman; IUCN – the World Conservation Union and CIEL, the Center for International Environmental Law, Europe (CIEL) consider: That existing patent systems and the recognition of intellectual property rights are not sufficient to guarantee the conservation of biological diversity nor the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and … Read More.
March 2002 For more than a year, WWF and CIEL have monitored closely WTO discussions on the assessment of trade in services. Three joint statements have been published in conjunction with the special sessions of the Council for Trade in Services. WWF and CIEL have outlined a number of recommendations for conducting a thorough … Read More.
International Anti-toxics Groups Urge Canadian Government to Resist Industry’s Challenge of Pesticide Ban The Hon. Pierre Pettigrew, P.C., M.P Minister for International Trade Lester B. Pearson Building 5th Floor, Tower B., 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A OG2 The Hon. David Anderson, P.C., M.P Minister of Environment Terrasses de la Chaudiere 28th … Read More.
November 2001 Years of hard work by CIEL and other environmental groups paid off on November 10, 2001 with the conclusion of the Seventh Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 7), in Marrakech, Morocco. Negotiators at COP 7 wrapped up the “crunch issues” that needed to be … Read More.
Environmental Organizations Blast Tanzanian Government for Attempts to Cover-up Allegations of Killings and Forced Evictions at Bulyanhulu Mine November 28, 2001 UPDATE! – November 29 – We have just learned that the Dar es salaam Police Commander has apparently decided that Mr. Mrema be release on police bail to” enable him recuperate from his diabetes.” … Read More.
Environmental Organizations Blast Tanzanian Government for Attempts to Cover-up Allegations of Killings and Forced Evictions at Bulyanhulu Mine November 27, 2001 UPDATE! – November 29 – We have just learned that the Dar es salaam Police Commander has apparently decided that Mr. Mrema be release on police bail to” enable him recuperate from his diabetes.” … Read More.
Compliance: A Critical Task for COP7 October 25, 2001 At COP7, Parties must: Complete and adopt the compliance text Ensure that all delegations faithfully adhere to the commitments their governments made in the Bonn Political Agreement Retain and strengthen provisions for public participation and transparency Last July 23 in Bonn, delegates, NGOs, and people … Read More.
October, 2001 The Inter-American Court on Human Rights, in a precedent-setting ruling, recognized the property rights of indigenous community traditional lands. The international court, located in San José Costa Rica and the American hemisphere’s most important human right tribunal, declared that the state of Nicaragua violated the human rights of the Mayagna Sumo Indigenous Community … Read More.
October 2001 Our organizations support trade agreements that encourage environmental progress and guard against direct attacks by trade rules on environmental laws. HR 3005, the Thomas fast track bill, falls far short on both counts — in a number of cases making n improvements upon the Crane fast track bill, and in others regressing … Read More.
September 27, 2001 Washington, D.C., September 27, 2001– Friends of the Earth-US (FoE), the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Mineral Policy Center (MPC) and other environmental and human rights groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Tanzania, call today for an independent review of accusations that thousands of … Read More.
For Immediate Release August 9, 2001 Washington D.C. — Environmentalists expressed strong disagreement today with the U.S. Administration’s stated intention of ratifying only the original 1989 Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal without ratifying a 1995 amendment to that treaty that effectively bans the dumping of hazardous … Read More.
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August 30, 2001 The Parties to the Kyoto Protocol achieved a victory for the earth’s climate by adopting a landmark Ministerial agreement at the resumed session of COP6 in Bonn in July, 2001. This agreement demonstrated the political will of the rest of the world to move this issue forward. It puts the Kyoto … Read More.
Report to CAN on Compliance Section of Political Agreement (FCCC/CP/20001/L.7) Prepared by Glenn Wiser, CIEL July 25, 2001 Compliance was the last area that kept Parties apart throughout the marathon negotiating session of July 22-23. Japan, Canada and Australia were the final holdouts. Nevertheless, when agreement was eventually reached, we achieved a compliance system … Read More.
United States and over 120 Countries Agree to Reduce and Eliminate Twelve of the World’s Most Dangerous Chemicals June 2001 Representatives of over 120 countries gathered in Stockholm on May 22 to adopt a new global treaty on persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The treaty commits states to work individually and collectively to reduce and … Read More.
Washington Post, June 29, 2001; page A36 David Ignatius’s commentary “Parallel Fears for the Planet Earth” [op-ed, June 17] buys into one of the Bush administration’s big lies: that Europeans are hypocrites because they have not yet ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Here are the facts: When the United States, Europe, Japan and … Read More.
June, 2001 One of President Bush’s principle objections to the Kyoto Protocol is that it exempts developing countries from emissions reduction obligations. To understand why it does so, it is instructive to examine the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed and ratified with the advice and consent of the Senate by George Bush senior … Read More.
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May 2001 When President Bush reneged on his promise to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants and turned his back on the Kyoto Protocol, he promised that the US would remain committed to fighting global warming. Today, it is clear he did not mean it. The Bush energy plan, if implemented, would send U.S greenhouse … Read More.
May 2001 CIEL worked with the Sierra Club, NRDC and other Climate Action Network members to advise Congressman Menendez as he drafted a House Resolution outlining the need for action to combat global warming. The resolution, co-sponsored by Representatives Lee, Hastings and Faleomaevaga, references findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and … Read More.
Stop the International Finance Corporation’s Proposed Niger Delta Credit Facility Project May 2001 Last year, over 200 groups from around the world called on the World Bank Group and its International Finance Corporation component to stop financing oil, gas and mining projects because of the negative environmental and human rights impacts that these projects tend … Read More.
October 2001 The World Bank involuntary resettlement policy states that project planning must avoid and minimize involuntary resettlement, and that if people lose their homes or livelihoods as a result of Bank-financed projects, they should have their standard of living improved, or at least restored. The policy was designed to address the plight of … Read More.
March 2001 Recently the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change a panel made up of hundreds of the world’s top climate scientists updated its assessment of the impacts global warming could have on future generations. The report predicts devastating droughts, floods and violent storms over the coming years caused by air pollution that is … Read More.
Withholding Could Hamper Protection of Domestic Environment & Health Laws March 7, 2001 WASHINGTON, DC—At the same moment the new U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Zoellick, was urging Congress to grant President Bush new international trade powers, a lawsuit was filed against him down the street in U.S. District Court. The suit challenges Zoellick’s decision to … Read More.
February 28, 2001 Dear President Wolfensohn, We, the undersigned, representatives of Human Rights Groups, Unions, Environmental Protection and Development NGOs and Peasant Organisations in Chad and Cameroon, have been actively following the Chad/Cameroon pipeline project since its initiation. Meeting in Mbalmayo for a planning workshop for the monitoring of the pipeline project, we wish to … Read More.
CIEL/International Rivers Network Letter to James Wolfensohn February 22, 2001 Mr. James Wolfensohn, President The World Bank 1818 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20433 Dear President Wolfensohn: We are writing to express serious reservations with the ongoing revisions to the World Bank’s resettlement policy. While World Bank staff have stated that this process will not … Read More.
February 22, 2001 The World Bank Group’s announcement that it has appointed a special committee to oversee the controversial Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline project was met today with a lukewarm response from international environment and human rights groups, who expressed concern over potentially harmful loopholes and omissions in the committee’s charter. The Bank-appointed International Advisory … Read More.