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MAPPING EU DECISION MAKING STRUCTURES ON FINANCIAL REGULATION AND SUPERVISION
February 1st, 2009 | Tags: financial regulation, European Union | Category: downloads and documents | 
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A Summary of Key Friends of the Earth Recommendations
“November 13, 2008—The current financial crisis offers a historic opportunity to create new
regulations, rules and architecture which create financial systems that support environmentally
sustainable and socially just economies. This issue brief summarizes many of Friends of the
Earth’s financial policy recommendations that have been offered over the past several years—
recommendations that are need now more than ever….”
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http://comhlamh.org/assets/files/pdfs/foe_financial_recommendations.pdf
January 12th, 2009 | Tags: financial regulation | Category: downloads and documents | Print This Post
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We won’t pay for your crises - it is time for change!
January 11th, 2009 | Tags: G 20, protests | Category: campaigns & action, building alliances | Print This Post
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The world faces a global emergency created by the confluence of an unprecedented financial crisis, rising food prices, climate change and growing inequities. Civil society groups from around the world show in this report how human rights are being violated as a direct consequence of the same global economic order that created this chaos. After the failure of mainstream strategies, the abandoned principles of social justice and a rights-based aproach to development are an essential component of any solution.
December 2nd, 2008 | Category: downloads and documents, news | Print This Post
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European cross network civil society meetingfor a common response to the global crises
Paris, 10th - 11th January 2009
December 2nd, 2008 | Tags: civil society | Category: campaigns & action, building alliances | Print This Post
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As a result of the crises of gentrification, housing and now foreclosures, Take Back the Land has been liberating public and foreclosed land and homes since 2006.
December 1st, 2008 | Tags: foreclosures, squatting, USA | Category: campaigns & action, links, news | Print This Post
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All the states of the European Union have ratified the international treaties and conventions that recognize and protect housing rights.
November 18th, 2008 | Tags: appeals, European Union | Category: housing crisis | Print This Post
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Open letter to EU housing ministers - International Alliance of Inhabitants
13/11/2008 3:04 pm
Honourable Ministers,
November 18th, 2008 | Tags: appeals, European Union | Category: housing crisis | Print This Post
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Appeal for European protest in Marseille 2008 / International Alliance of Inhabitants
01/10/2008 2:41 pm
The following appeal was proposed during the Assembly of urban social movements at the European Social Forum, which was held on September 20th in Malmö (Sweden).
November 18th, 2008 | Tags: protests, European Union | Category: campaigns & action | Print This Post
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From: Bretton Woods Project
Despite being billed as a ‘Bretton Woods 2′ meeting, the first G20 heads of state meeting in Washington in mid-November agreed little of substance, and was criticised for an opaque, closed preparation process.
The next G20 Heads of State meeting will be in London on 2 April 2009.
Under the following five headings, immediate actions and medium term actions are listed in the G20 statement, but most raise problems rather than proposing specific solutions. Finance ministers are tasked with coming up with additional actions in a number of areas, including: “reviewing and aligning global accounting standards” and “reviewing the mandates, governance, and resource requirements of the IFIs”. A revival of the Doha ‘development’ trade round is also promised by the end of the year. Poverty reduction and climate change merit only a passing reference.
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http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/art-562975
November 17th, 2008 | Tags: G 20 | Category: housing & financial crisis, news | Print This Post
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