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Issues from recent years are below. For even older issues of the Upstream Journal, select a year from
the list on the left.
Note: These files are several years old, have some problems with appearance and accessibility which have not been repaired, and do not match the current web site in appearance. |
Sept 2008 Women & empowerment
- 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
PLUS
our regular feature “Eye on the World Bank and IMF”
- World Bank spends more on fossil fuels
- IMF programs found to damage health in post-communist countries
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June 2008
Special Focus: Small arms trade. Check out the 30-second promo for this issue on YouTube here!
- 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
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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
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Debt relief incomplete for Liberia
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Nov/Dec
2007
- Uganda and the challenges of dealing with the Lord’s Resistance Army
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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
PLUS
our regular feature “Eye on the World Bank and IMF”
- 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
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Sept/Oct
2007
Special
Focus: Guatemala 10 years after the Peace Accords, how have things
changed?
- 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
Eye
on the World Bank and IMF
- 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
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March/April
2007
Special
Focus: Women of Africa empowering themselves
- 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
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Sept/Oct
2006
- Genetically engineered trees pose danger to forests and people, activists claim
- Lutte contre les arbes d’eucalyptus
- Railway to Tibet: Development or cultural destruction?
- Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize winning Nigerian author, speaks out on Darfur
- Teacher works to change attitudes in Haiti: Traditional approaches to education not enough
Eye on the World Bank and IMF:
- Debt relief for the poorest countries in the Americas still denied
- Benefits of debt relief in Zambia limited because government has little room to make policy choices, UNDP study says
Plus:
- "Export credit-the new odious debt of the Third World" - Patricia Adams
- Out of (patience with) Africa? Book review of The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working by Robert Calderisi, plus interview with the author about his controversial proposals
- Book review of The Macroeconomics of HIV/AIDS edited by Markus Haacker
- Guatemalans seek help from ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
- Interview Stephen Lewis on ending AIDS and poverty in Africa, Part II
- Opinion: Democracy, Where art Thou?
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March/April
2006
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Interview: Stephen Lewis talks with us about AIDS and poverty in Africa
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Femicide
in Guatemala - murder of women is on the rise
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Des
enfants emprisonnés - des enfants isolés dans la zone
d'attente de Roissy
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World
Bank off to shaky start on indigenous rights policy, review slams lack
of consultation
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Dec
2005
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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
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Summer 2005
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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
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After
the tsunami - why recovery needs to be locally-driven
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World
Bank "consultation" vs "consent" -
indigenous people want veto power over projects
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Jan 2005
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Special
focus on Guatemala - indigenous communities respond to gold mine, seek
consultatio
- Wal-Mart
builds on ancient Mexican historical site
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Electronic
surveillance in China on the rise, Canadian company involved
- Wealthy
countries arm the conflict in Sudan
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"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
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"The
New Conquistadors"- Ernie Schibli's opinion on Guatemala gold
mining
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