News Room Archive

Market woes threaten UN aid goals
28 Nov 2008
Rich countries must not use the banking crisis as an excuse to backpedal on aid commitments, leading charities have said in advance of a Doha-hosted United Nations summit on development.

Bretton Woods 2 conference: limited expectations
13 Nov 2008
On November 15 the leaders of 20 nations and the major multilateral financial institutions will gather behind closed doors in Washington to discuss the future of the global economy. This group includes many of the people, governments, and institutions whose policies are responsible for the current financial meltdown. Civil society groups and many governments have called for a process that is much more inclusive of other nations and the peoples of those nations.