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Feb 8, 20091

Protect women — CHR

by Joel dela Torre
from People’s Journal

MARKING the United Nations Day for Women and International Peace today, the Commission on Human Rights called on government to improve protection and programs for the rights of women.

The CHR said … Read the rest

Jan 18, 20090

Zoellick and Strauss-Kahn React to Unions’ Demands on Growing Global Employment Crisis

from ITUC-CSI

Washington, 18 January 2009 (ITUC OnLine):  Commitments to strengthen social programmes for workers hit by the economic crisis and to increase action on core labour standards were made by World Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director … Read the rest

Oct 14, 20080

WB to protect poor from market turmoil

Philippine Star

WASHINGTON – The World Bank agreed Sunday to help developing countries strengthen their economies, bolster their financial systems and protect the poor against the financial turmoil in international markets.

Robert Zoellick, the bank’s president, said the contagion affecting … Read the rest

Oct 10, 20080

ILO Director-General calls for urgent measures to address “grave consequences” of global financial crisis

ILO Press Release

WASHINGTON (ILO News) ? The Director-General of the International Labour Office, Juan Somavia, has called for a series of urgent and coordinated financial, social, regulatory and development measures to avert a slide into recession and address the … Read the rest

Oct 9, 20080

IMF lowers GDP growth outlook for Philippines

Maricel E. Burgonio
Manila Times

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised downward its economic-growth forecast for the Philippines for 2008 and further lowered it for 2009, adding that the US financial turmoil would further decelerate economic activities in the Philippines.… Read the rest

Oct 5, 20080

Trade Unions Demand Effective Responses from the IMF and World Bank to Worsening Financial and Food Crises

ITUC OnLine

Brussels, 05 October 2008 (ITUC OnLine): With the spreading financial crisis likely to take centre stage at the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington on 11-13 October, the global trade
union movement is … Read the rest

Oct 5, 20080

Trade Unions Demand Effective Responses from the IMF and World Bank to Worsening Financial and Food Crises

ITUC OnLine

Brussels, 05 October 2008 (ITUC OnLine): With the spreading financial crisis likely to take centre stage at the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington on 11-13 October, the global trade

union movement is … Read the rest

Oct 3, 20081

ADB Issues Second Draft Safeguard Policy Statement for Public Comment

ADB.org News

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has issued the second draft of its Safeguard Policy Statement, which pulls together currently separate policies on involuntary resettlement, indigenous peoples, and the environment.

The second draft of the policy … Read the rest

Jul 21, 20080

IMF ripe for shakeup, Paul Martin says Former PM says credit crisis shows richer nations lack moral authority to guide world economy unchallenged

Kevin Carmichael
Globe and Mail

WATERLOO, ONT. — The credit crisis will spark a long-awaited overhaul of the International Monetary Fund by forcing nations such as the United States and Britain to acknowledge they lack moral authority to guide the … Read the rest

Jun 10, 20080

IMF to review RP rice problem, fiscal plan

Iris C. Gonzales
Philippine Star

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be sending a review team to check on the country’s rice crisis as well as the government’s fiscal reform program.

The visit, which is scheduled on June 16 to … Read the rest

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