1. Reckless Lending

Volume II How Canada’s Export Development Corporation Puts People and the Environment at Risk BY THE NGO WORKING GROUP ON THE EXPORT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION A WORKING GROUP OF THE HALIFAX INITIATIVE COALITION, Ottawa, May 2001 This publication has been a collaborative research effort by: Asad Ismi and five other writers (see author list on page […]

Profiting From Repression: Canadian Firms in Colombia Protected by Military Death Squads

By Asad Ismi Since 1990, 35,000 Colombians have been killed in a horrific escalation of political violence. An average of ten political assassinations are reported every day. Colombia’s state security forces and their paramilitary allies have been responsible for the vast majority of these killings. Many paramilitary death squads have been created by the Colombian […]