SRI LANKA : Reject WB's dictates. Build a People Centered Development
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- Published on Thursday, 14 September 2006 19:15
WB’s Annual Meeting of 2006 is due to begin on September 12th in Singapore. It is common understanding among people of the world today, that the WB is the key agency that pushes forward the plans that have resulted in the biggest destruction of the poor people in poor countries. Therefore, on September 14, 2006 people in almost all countries will raise their voices to say “the destructive policies of the WB should be defeated”. It has today become an on going struggle by the poor people of the world to launch such protests and resistance when and wherever the WB, IMF, WTO and the G-8 countries meet to plan and carry out their agenda of Globalisation. This has become an essential aspect of the struggle for freedom and sovereignty .
Sri Lanka has been intensely subject to these destructive dictates of the WB for nearly three decades. Even when people elect Governments that promise policies that are relatively people friendly, these Governments, these governments begin to obey policies that are imposed upon them or dictated by the WB, IMF, ADB and other financial institutions after being elected. Thus, the promised policies are not carried out. The experiences of the last decade have amply proved this phenomenon. It has become the reality even today.
IFI interventions in the paddy and rice sector in Sri Lanka
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 September 2006 03:42
Protesters storm ADB Country office in Delhi
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- Published on Saturday, 02 September 2006 04:25
Protesters blocked the gates to the building for an hour until the Delhi Police came to the rescue of the ADB staff.
MST's Jaime Amorim released!
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- Published on Friday, 01 September 2006 03:11
[08/28/2006] Superior Justice Tribunal (STJ) decides in favor of Jaime Amorim
A short while ago, the Superior Justice Tribunal (STJ) announced its decision to revoke the preventative imprisonment of Jaime Amorim, of the MST’s National Coordinating Body, detained since last Monday. The decision by Minister Nilson Naves comes in response to the filing of habeas corpus by Amorim’s lawyers.
