Speeches and Presentations
 | Periodically, the Halifax Initiative Coalition is asked to make presentations or speeches at various forums. We provide alternative perspectives on issues relating to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Export credit agencies (International Financial Institutions or IFIs), and issues including international debt, IMF and World Bank conditionality, environmental standards, human rights and international finance, IFI governance and accountability, corporate accountability. Below are copies of what was said at previous presentations! |
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The Changing Face of Global Development Finance - Presentations Day One and Two
On the first day of the February 2008 conference on the "Changing Face of Global Development Finance", we heard from the following:
Amar Bhattacharya, Group of 24, Yao Graham, Third World Network-Africa, Jorge Marchini, International Debt Observatory, Fabrina Furtado, Rede Brasil, Worapot Manupipatpong, Asian Development Bank Institute, Firoze Manji Pambazuka News and Fahamu, Roberto Bissio, Social Watch, John Foster, North South Institute.
Presentation to SCFAID on WB and IMF - April 26, 2007
On April 26th, NSI President, Roy Culpeper, and KAIROS Canada's Global Economic Justice Coordinator, presented their views on the issues raised by the Government’s annual report on the Bretton Woods Organizations (the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) before members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (SFAIT). The meeting was called by the Standing Committee in response to a request by the Halifax Initiative Coalition. As of Mid-May 2007, Minister Flaherty has yet to appear before the Committee.
Human Rights and the Financial Sector - February 16, 2007
The UN Secretary General's Special Representative on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights, John Ruggie, convened a meeting on the financial sector and human rights on February 16, 2007, in Geneva. The meeting included representatives from a number of Export Credit Agencies, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, several Equator Principle banks, academia and civil society. The Halifax Initiative's Program Officer, Karyn Keenan, spoke at the meeting on the human rights obligations of public financial institutions.
Corporate Accountability: Isn't it time CSR grew up?
This presentation was made at the annual national conference of Engineers Without Borders in Calgary in January 2007 during a plenary session on Corporate Social Responsibility/Humanizing Engineering.
Future Trends in CSR and their Impacts on Financial Institutions
This note was distributed to members of Export Development Canada's Advisory Council on Corporate Social Responsibility at their November 30, 2006 meeting. Halifax Initiative Program Officer Karyn Keenan was one of three invited guests who addressed the Council.
Expert Meeting on CSR and Extractive Industries
This presentation was made as part of an expert session in Toronto in September 2006 on incentives and instruments for encouraging better CSR, one of four thematic roundtables held across Canada on the broader theme of Corporate Social Responsibility in the mining, oil and gas sectors and their operations in developing countries.
Mind the (Growing) Gap – Debt, Aid, and Trade (July 2006)
This is a short opinion piece written in July 2006 by Fraser Reilly-King , the Coordinator of the Halifax Initiative Coalition, one year on from the Group of Eight's "Historic" meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland.
Export Development Canada's Compliance Mechanism - Lessons learned
This presentation was made as part of a workshop on Export Credit Agencies at a two day discussion on "Export Credit Agencies and Human Rights Accountability" held in Belgium, Brussels in September 2005.
An overview of how ECAs take account of Human Rights
This presentation was made as part of a workshop on Export Credit Agencies at a two day discussion on "Export Credit Agencies and Human Rights Accountability" held in Belgium, Brussels in September 2005.
Presentation on Export Credit Agencies and Human Rights
This presentation on ECAs and Human Rights was made on June 22, 2005, to the European Union Working Group on Export Credit Agencies at the European Commission.
Presentation: Drop the debt!
Prepared Remarks March 1, 2005 McGill Global Aids Coalition
The Case for an Independent International Development Association (October 2003)
The International Development Association is the arm of the World Bank Group that loans or grants financing to low-income countries. It is controlled by donors and by the World Bank's overall failed approach to people-centred, country owned development.
Speech on the Role of IFIs in Privatization
Presentation given to the Commonwealth Foundation civil society discussion "Providing Essential Services for All", by Pamela Foster, Coordinator, Brunei Darasalaam, July 22nd, 2003.
Speech to the New Humanity Conference
NEW HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL NGO CONGRESS “A Global Agreement towards a United World”
World Social Forum - Porto Alegre
We use money everyday. Money is a tool; a means to simplify transactions in an economy based on the exchange of goods and services. But the way most of us use money is old fashioned, out of date. Money is no longer a means of exchange but an end in itself. We live in the era of the commodification of money, an era where money has become divorced from the real economy it was originally designed to serve.
G8 Counter Conference, the G6B People's Summit (July 2002)
Final Report on the G6B People's Summit [PDF format ]
Talking G8: The Travelling Road Show
At the invitation of the Parkland Institute and the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation, the Halifax Initiative participated in education events in 10 cities in Alberta to discuss the upcoming G8 meeting in Kananaskis, in June 2002.
Submission to public consultations on EDC's ERF (October 2001)
Submission to public consultations on EDC's environmental review framework (October 2001) [PDF format]
Probe International Submission to SCFAIT on Bill C-31 (October 2001)
The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (SCFAIT) conducted hearings on Bill C-31, an act to amend the Export Development Act. This is one of several submissions to those hearings by Probe International (October 2001).
WCELA Submission to SCFAIT on Bill C-31 (October 2001)
The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (SCFAIT) conducted hearings on Bill C-31, an act to amend the Export Development Act. This is one of several submissions to those hearings by the West Coast Environmental Law Association.
