Publications
 Human Rights
The right to not be poor
Poverty as a violation of human rights. Coordinated by Social Watch research team.
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Post-Neoliberal Agenda
As part of the activities to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the institution, Ibase organized the seminar Democracy, Development and Rights which Brazil does the world need in Rio de Janeiro on 12-13 May 2006. The initiative was part of the Post-neoliberal Agenda: strategic alternatives for democratic human development project. This publication is a compilation of the principal texts presented at the meeting, and other unpublished texts on related themes.
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International financial liberalization and governance
Financial Liberalization and Global Governance: the role of International Entities
The goals of the project, coordinated by Ibase, gathering the efforts of activists and specialists from 13 countries, under the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation, are precisely to investigate the "democratic deficit" in the debate and decision processes embedded in the financial international institutions, and to propose ways to overcome this deficit. It is not primarily, or even mainly, an academic project, but is instead a political initiative. It aims at contributing to strengthen the hand of social movements and organizations, developing country governments, members of parliaments, among others, in their everyday struggle to demand voice and influence in the institutions that conceal their power in the informality of their bylaws or on the biases of their rules of engagement.
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November 13-14, 2008
May 8-9, 2008
March 19-20, 2007
Who rules the financial system?
This pamphlet constitutes a first result of the project. It addresses the democratic deficit within the international institutions that formulate financial regulation strategies, and shows the importance and the results of these institutions current modes of functioning. The text is based on the works and debates produced during the first stage of the project begun in July 2006 and finalized in June, 2007.
Summary: How did financial markets come to be so powerful? Why do government leaders, even those freely elected at the head of progressive movements that promise fundamental social changes, feel so intimidated that they see no alternative but to sacrifice their promises to the demands of banks and financial investors? How are international governance rules established in a context in which governments don t feel empowered to control even their own domestic situation?
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Financial Crisis and Democratic Deficit (2009)
This second volume discuss the financial processes that led to the current crisis, it analysis the regulatory failures in this process, and how civil society organizations can address these issues. Some alternatives to overcome the "democratic deficit" in the operation of entities, such as the Basle Committee, are discussed. This is a crucial task in achieving a more democratic international financial governance.
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Democratization of Vectors of National Development
Impacts of sugarcane industry in Brazil
Air Pollution, threat to water resources, risk to foodstuff production, outdated working relations and insufficient protection to workers health.
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