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Singapore Government deports Indian activist and 22 others. |
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Thursday, 14 September 2006 |
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PRESS RELEASE:
14 September 2006, Mumbai
Singapore Government deports Indian activist and 22 others.
World Bank/IMF Annual Meeting mired in controversy
The Singapore Government yesterday (13 September 06) deported Wilfred D’Costa and 22 others, who were in Singapore to attend the joint Annual Meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (September 13-19). D’Costa is the General Secretary of Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF), which is a network of over 600 member organizations across India that works to ‘resist globalisation, combat communalism and defend democracy’. He is based in Ahmedabad. More than 16,000 delegates are expected to attend the week-long meetings in the island state. Singapore has already received considerable bad press for prohibiting protests and refusing to grant entry to some 28 activists whom the World Bank and IMF had accredited to attend the civil society events surrounding the annual meeting. |
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FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI), Issue: SEPTEMBER 2006. Vol. III. No. 09. |
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Wednesday, 13 September 2006 |
Free trade sans Free speech in Singapore.
It is ranked among the worlds most business friendly economies. But Singapore’s abysmal rating on democracy and human rights dipped further as authorities arbitrarily banned several foreign activists from entering the country during the joint annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (September 13-19). A World Bank/IMF perfunctory and feeble statement of objection to the Singapore Government met with little response from civil society. Protest Groups have instead pointed to the irony of Singapore as a venue and called for a boycott of the official Bank-Fund meetings. We urge you to endorse the call at our website. We also carry a letter of protest from Shalmali Guttal, a Focus staff member, to the Government of India. She is among the activists barred from entering Singapore.
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FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI) --- Issue: AUGUST 2006. Vol. III. No. 08. |
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Saturday, 19 August 2006 |
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Summary:
While Israel was raining bombs and missiles on Lebanon, Focus was instrumental
in organising a 12-member solidarity delegation, to experience first hand, the
inhuman sufferings and unmindful destruction as well as to demand for an immediate
ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. The reports being sent
daily by members of the delegation tells us horrifying tales of peoples
suffering and the systematic destruction of the civil infrastructure including
roads, private homes, bridges, fuel stations, which shows that Israelis agenda
is not only to target Hezbollah, but to degrade the ability of the Lebanese to
connect with one another. Their reports also indicate that Hezbollah, a
movement evolved in reaction to Israel's invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, is
gaining support and approval among the masses including Lebanese Christians,
thus foiling the political aim of Israeli aggression in Lebanon. The articles
from Walden Bello (Philippine) and Seema Mustafa (India) presen
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