• Dalits in Bangladesh
  A the bottom of society, fighting for a voice
• Honduras beaches
  Local Garifuna organization claims tourism development means increased repression
• Homosexuality and Africa - a deadly combination
  State-sponsored oppression and the impact on the HIV /AIDS epidemic
• Financial vultures
  Poor countries pay millions to private collectors on old, often forgotten, debts
• Second class in Hong Kong
  Domestic workers come for the work, risking exploitation, and are permanently excluded from citizenship
• Landgrabs in Cambodia
  Evictions of poor communities are common as demand for land rises

Eye on the World Bank and IMF

• In the corridors, the Upstream’s editor checks out the winds of policy change
• Book review: “Moving Out of Poverty”

Eye on Ottawa

• Canada’s new law on accountability in foreign aid, and why it’s not working
• Ernie Schibli’s Opinion
  Canada’s reluctance to condemn the Honduras coup

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This issue:

• Digging for their lives and your electronic needs - the coltan of the Congo
• China’s coal - the deadliest shafts on earth
• Girls in the mines - (2 articles) Out of Sight; Digging for precious stones in the midst of poverty
• Lutte contre l’aluminium au Kashipur
• Coal sludge - the big spill in Tennessee
• Corporate social responsibility - A mining industry perspective
• Poursuite: Barrick Gold vs Éditions Écosociété

Plus:

• Justice for the dead - An anthropologist returns to Guatemala

Eye on the World Bank and IMF

• Canadian law requires human rights in aid
• The financial crisis and the $10 billion question

Eye on Ottawa

• CIDA drops 8 African countries, shifts aid focus to the Americas
• Opinion - Why the change in policy is "nearsighted and wrongheaded"

• Profile of an Afghani woman building community in Montreal
• Mesurer la violence à l'égard des femmes
• Canadian foreign policy - the new Minister
• Trade deal with Colombia

• World Bank spends more on fossil fuels 
• IMF programs found to damage health in post-communist countries

• The AK-47 - The gun that took the world by storm
• Arms dealer operating in Montreal - Everything from combat boots to armed assault vehicles
• The “Merchant of Death” - The story of notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout
• The need for regulations and an international treaty - Most countries want the UN to control arms trafficking, but US opposition may mean that their efforts will be futile
• Canadian inaction on small arms - Canada falls behind on efforts to prevent the international proliferation of small arms
• Biofuels - Biofuel production is increasing, but blamed for driving food prices beyond the reach of the world ’s poor
• Filles Enfants Soldats - Après la guerre, les programmes de réinsertion souvent laissent passer les filles
• The new rules of corporate social responsibility - The Canadian government has been slow to respond to report on how to ensure social responsibility of mining operations overseas

PLUS our regular feature “Eye on the World Bank and IMF”

• Watchdog to the IMF: Interview with the director of the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office
• The World Bank's failures in environmental standards in oil/gas operation in Kazakhstan, corruption in health projects in India
• Debt relief incomplete for Liberia

• Uganda and the challenges of dealing with the Lord’s Resistance Army
• India and charges of government complicity in mass killings
• Sudan and efforts to fight female genital mutilation
• Canadian government opposition to recognition of indigenous rights

• World Bank funding for HIV/AIDS programs in decline
• Les femmes ne sont pas prises en compte par les fonds de la Banque mondiale pour la reconstruction après conflit
• The need for immediate cancellation of Liberia debt to the WB and IMF
• A World Bank report censored to remove information on deaths in China from air pollution

• Finca San Geronimo - poverty and hunger on the plantations
• Villagers take a grassroots approach to fighting mega-projects
• Access to education is key to peace, local group argues, but government remains unresponsive
• Women demand end to violence
• Assault and intimidation of journalists
• Assaults of rights workers goes unpunished
• Honduras - les companies de sécurité privée ont carte blanche

• Scandal forces president out, replacement chosen by the US
• US appointee tries to undermine women's health care, climate change
• IMF faces new criticism of "business as usual" approach, policies that cut social spending

• Limites de l’intervention Occidental en Afrique
• Fighting domestic violence
• Women in government - do they make a difference?
• Debt relief at last for Latin America
• Recipe in a human rights magazine? Yep - making banana bread with a conscience

• Interview: Stephen Lewis talks with us about AIDS and poverty in Africa
• Femicide in Guatemala - murder of women is on the rise
• Des enfants emprisonnés - des enfants isolés dans la zone d'attente de Roissy
• World Bank off to shaky start on indigenous rights policy, review slams lack of consultation

• AIDS in Swaziland - a portrait of Siphiwe Hlope and her work with the grassroots organization Swazis for Positive Living
• Depletion of West African fish stocks - local efforts to rebuild the resource and the need to stop overfishing by foreign trawlers
• Mugabe's destruction of shantytown communities - and the activist response by Women of Zimbabwe Arise
• The undemocratic process for the coming free trade agreement between Canada and a group of Central American countries
• The IMF's opaque press policy and the consequences for global governance

• Feature: The rights of people with disabilities, with stories from Lebanon, Nepal, Tanzania, Nigeria and Uganda, PLUS interviews with the World Bank and Disabled Peoples' International about their work and about the coming UN convention on the rights of people with disabilities
• The G8 summit - no mention of human rights, empowerment
• La paix en Guatemala - loin d'avoir été achevée
• Development and sport
• After the tsunami - why recovery needs to be locally-driven
• World Bank "consultation" vs "consent" - indigenous people want veto power over projects 

• Special focus on Guatemala - indigenous communities respond to gold mine, seek consultatio
• Wal-Mart builds on ancient Mexican historical site
• Electronic surveillance in China on the rise, Canadian company involved
• Wealthy countries arm the conflict in Sudan
• "Eye on the World Bank and IMF" - behind the scenes on debt relief, Canada not willing to push for poor country 'voice,' choosing the new World Bank president
• "The New Conquistadors"- Ernie Schibli's opinion on Guatemala gold mining