16231: Blanchet: Fw: Action on the Ouanaminthe free zone - US delegation contact details (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Max Blanchet <MaxBlanchet@worldnet.att.net>
>
> The Haiti Support Group hopes that your organization will decide to
support
> the civil society organizations in Haiti that have serious concerns about
the
> Ouanaminthe free trade zone project that is due to be funded by the World
> Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC).
>
> We are asking you to send letters to the address/email below stating that
you
> want the World Bank board of directors to ensure that a comprehensive and
> meaningful consultation with relevant Haitian civil society organizations
occurs
> before any decision on proposed funding for the project is taken. You can
also
> ask that the World Bank insists that Grupo M includes a commitment to
permit
> union organizing and collective bargaining in their factories in the
> Ouanaminthe free zone, in line with agreed International Labor
Organization core
> conventions.
>
> The USA's executive director at the World Bank and International Monetary
> fund is:
>
> Carole Brookins,
> MC 13-525
> World Bank Group
> 1818 H Street, NW,
> Washington, D.C. 20433,
> USA
>
> Tel: 202-458-0110
> Fax: 202-477-2967
> Email: cbrookins@worldbank.org
>
> Please cc to Carole Brookins' alternate:
> Robert B. Holland, III,
> Email: rholland@worldbank.org
>
> and to:
> The Haiti Support Group
> Email: haitisupport@gn.apc.org
>
> For more information on this issue see the Haiti Support Group's special
> feature page at: www.haitisupport.gn.apc.org  - What's New.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles Arthur
>
> ______________________________________________
>
>
> This email is forwarded as a service of the Haiti Support Group.
>
> See the Haiti Support Group web site:
> www.haitisupport.gn.apc.org
>
> Solidarity with the Haitian people's struggle for justice, participatory
> democracy and equitable development, since 1992.
> ____________________________________________
>