The Real News - Raj Patel: International trade rules have ravaged Haiti's domestic food production

Introducing with indymedia.org, coverage of the protests in September 2000 against the IMF and the World Bank conference in Prague. Interviews with activists and campaigners from the southern hemisphere give damning criticism of the IMF and World Bank policies as the film charts the preparations for the day of action in Prague, the day itself and its aftermath.

The majority of natural resources are located in the continent of Africa. Yet this continent contains some the most mineral rich and economically poor countries in the world. What is the solution to this problem.?
Should they move towards an economic union like Europe in order to prosper?

With so much wealth in the world,
why is there still poverty?

Idris Elbai has joined the Oxfam campaign calling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to drop Haiti's Debt.

10,000 Bodies Buried Daily in Quake Aftermath; Medical Group Faults US Militarization of Haitian Relief;
IMF Drops Conditions on $100M Haiti Loan...

An examination of the climate-friendly changes needed in the World Trade Organisation, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to underpin a climate agreement at the Copenhagen Conference of the Parties (COP) in December 2009