The G-7, TNCs, SAPs & Human Rights

TABLE of CONTENTS

Introduction KITAZAWA YOKO

SECTION ONE: OVER VIEWS

-Principles of the Tribunal ---------------RICHARD FALK
-Alternative SAPs -----------------------DAVISON BUDHOO
-G-7: Conflicts Within and Without ----CHANDRA MUZAFFAR

SECTION TWO: THE TESTIMONY

BRAZIL: Adjusting for Impoverishment
     MARIA CLARA COUTO SOARES

THE CENTRAL AMERICAS: 'Development' Neoliberal Style
     ARTURO GRISBY

THE CARIBBEAN / JAMAICA : SAPped in Sixteen Years
     TENNIFER TONES

AFRICA / THE SUDAN : Aid Aggravates Agrarian Crisis
     T.M. ALl

INDIA: SAPping Women's Roots and Resources
     TAY A SHRIVASTAVA
INDIA: People's Power Expropriated
     VANDANA SHIVA

INDONESIA: Authoritarianism Backed by G-7
     ARIEF BUDIMAN

THE PHILIPPINES: The G-7' s Debt Screws
     LEONOR M. BRIONES

JAPAN: A Third World in the First World
     KANNO YOSHIHIDE & ARAKI TAKESHI

ENVIRONMENT: Free Market, A Ruthless Predator
     ISAGANO R. SERRANO

SECTION THREE: THE JUDGEMENT

The Tribunal's Indictment
Facts About the Impacts of SAPs

SECTION FOUR: THE FOLLOW UP

Acting on the Indictment
C. MUZAFFAR, V. SHIVA & A. BUDIMAN

Formation of the JBWC

About This Book

  Since the 1980s, and in particular since the collapse of the Eastern bloc, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have become key places where world political and economic decisions are made.
  The world is being unified, militarily under the UN Security Council, and economically under these "faceless institutions". The seven leading industrial powers which constitute the Group-7 (or, G- 7) exert a controlling voice in the operations of these institutions.
   In its new Report, based on the oral testimonies made before its: distinguished panel by people from different parts of the victimized world, the People's Tribunal. analyzes the effects of the policies of these "faceless institutions" and of the faces that stand behind them - besides the G-7, also the MNCs - on creating and deepening the poverty, environmental degradation and human rights violations involving the majority in the countries of the South. Since the Tribunal was sitting in Japan, special attention was also paid to Japan's role in these issues.