Guest editorials

24.10.2003 Samuel Nguiffo of the Centre for Environment and Development/Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement, Cameroon, finds that, for all the World Bank’s good intentions, the Chad-Cameroon oil project has been a disaster for rural communities and will do little or nothing for poor people. July 21, 2003

23.10.2003 Friends of the Earth USA welcomes new voluntary social and environmental standards adopted by major international investment banks but cautions that limited scope and lack of accountability mechanisms could be fatal flaws. July 14, 2003

23.10.2003 Louise Richards, Chief Executive of War on Want, sees the pharmaceutical lobby lurking behind the US President’s recently announced $15 billion global health initiative. July 7, 2003

23.10.2003 Judy Rebick, publisher of Rabble, Ryerson University Chair in Social Justice and Democracy and OneWorld trustee, has high hopes for the World Social Forum “movement of movements” . June 30, 2003

23.10.2003 Bud Philbrook, President of Global Volunteers, argues that "people-to-people" development strategies, led by local communities, generate hope, restore equality, and can ultimately deliver peace. JUne 23, 2003

23.10.2003 Bruce Harris of Casa Alianza remembers Guatemalan former street-child José Antonio Gutierrez, 28, a victim of “friendly fire”, politics and indifference, and the first US Marine killed in the Iraq war. June 10, 2003

23.10.2003 Mae-Wan Ho, Director of the Institute of Science in Society and cofounder of the Independent Science Panel on GM, launched in London on 10 May 2003, argues that `genetic determinism’ promotes injustice as well as bad science, and endangers lives. May 2003

23.10.2003 Anuradha Vittachi, OneWorld's Founding Editor, says the anti-war protests are a sign of a new and accountable kind of globalization. March/April 2003