Close to 80 campaigners, community water activists, public water operators and unionists from 30 countries came together February 1st to the 3rd 2010, when the Reclaiming Public Water (RPW) Network held its global strategy seminar in Brussels, Belgium. The event was the first global RPW assembly since the network was launched in autumn 2005. The seminar was a space for sharing knowledge and experiences about improving public water provision through democratisation, partnerships between...
TNI fellow, Daniel Chavez has been part of a team of international advisers working with Venezuelan researchers and CANTV to review the the state telecommunications company's history and put forward proposals for converting it into an effective socialist public company.
Tell us about the history of CANTV.
CANTV is the second largest company in Venezuela after the energy giant PDVSA. It not only provides telephone services, both landline and mobile; it also...
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AMY GOODMAN: In Afghanistan, the number of civilian
casualties continues to rise. On Tuesday, at least eight people died after a bomb exploded in the southern provincial capital of Lashkar Gah amidst a major US-led offensive in the area. Local authorities said all those killed in the attack were civilians.
Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s government has condemned a NATO air strike on a convoy on...
Video filmed at the strategy seminar of the Reclaiming Public Water Network, Brussels, 1-3 February 2010.
Participants
V. Suresh - Practicing Advocate in the Madras High Court. Also a human rights activist and one of the National Secretaries of People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) one of India's largest human rights bodies. Suresh has been appointed by the Supreme Court of India as the Adviser...
This interview belongs to a series of interviews on perspectives of activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe on the issue of regional integration. All interviews were filmed by TNI at the International Conference of Governments and Social Movements - “Regional Integration: an opportunity to face the crises”...
In this issue of Crime & Globalisation, Tom Blickman tracks the history of the international anti-money laundering (AML) regime. Since its origin in 1989 there is a growing awareness that the AML regime is not working as well as intended. After two decades of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement one that does work.
During that time other illicit or unregulated money flows have appeared on the international agenda as well. Today, tax evasion and avoidance, flight...
Although the World Social Forum’s meetings are always hopeful occasions, none of us will find much to celebrate as we look back on the year just past. It climaxed with the Copenhagen Catastrophe—exceptionally bad news for the human race– but it had also witnessed two appallingly conventional G-20 meetings whose clear objective was to return to Business as Usual in the shortest possible time. The G-20s remedy consisted in saving the IMF from extinction by handing it $...
On January 1, 2010, the China-Asean Free Trade Area (Cafta) went into effect. Touted as the world’s biggest Free Trade Area, CAFTA is billed as having 1.7 million consumers, with a combined gross domestic product of $ 2 trillion and total trade of $ 1.3 trillion.
Under the agreement, trade between China and six Asean countries including Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore has become duty-free for more than 7,000 products.
By...
The outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference is so abysmally disproportionate to its two year-long preparation that even prime minister Manmohan Singh had to admit that only “very limited” progress was achieved there. This is a far kinder description than the conference deserves. Its outcome was a disaster—a two-and-a-half page agreement not adopted under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which sets no short- or medium-term goals and no enforceable collective or individual...
As the UN climate change conference enters its final days, thousands demonstrated in the streets of Copenhagen as part of the “Reclaim Power” protest. Starting from multiple points around the city, the demonstrators approached the Bella Centre to hold a “People’s Assembly” and give voice to climate change solutions that are marginalised from the talks. Despite significant repression from the police, the groups succeeded in holding the Assembly close to the conference venue. The main protest...
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