Archive for September, 2005

World Development Movement admits sorry state of nationalised water »

By Alex Singleton on Sep 27, 2005 in International development | 1 Comment

In this week’s e-mail newsletter from the World Development Movement, an anti-capitalist pressure group, there is an attack water privatisation. It says Britain’s Department for International Development is wrong to assist Sierra Leone which has asked DFID for help tendering out and regulating its water system. But the e-mail admits the sorry state of the […]

Turkey and human rights »

By Alex Singleton on Sep 11, 2005 in Globalisation | 0 Comments

I am reading The Turks Today by Andrew Mango (he’s now retired but was formerly the BBC’s Head of South European and French Language Services). He says that “the claim that Turkey is a country where human rights are routinely violated, a claim often made by Turkey’s ethnic adversaries, and sometimes used as an excuse […]