World Watch articles from July 1996

World Watch archives from July 1996

Wake up, World Bank and FAO. (UN Food and Agriculture Organization)(Editorial)
July 1, 1996... Of all the problems confronting the world's beleaguered governments, few have as much long-term importance as the challenge of guaranteeing their peoples an adequate food supply. In the face of growing populations which may not stabilize for...

Past dam disaster casts a shadow over Three Gorges. (dam project in China)
July 1, 1996... New evidence of a catastrophic dam failure in China heightens concern over the Three Gorges project, which aims to erect the world's largest dam across the Yangtze River. According to a 1995 report by Human Rights Watch/Asia, between 86,000 and...

More indigenous lands condemned. (Malaysia)
July 1, 1996... The Malaysian government is pressing ahead with plans to build one of the largest dams on the globe in one of its remotest spots. The Bakun dam, sited on the Balui River in Sarawak (in heavily logged Malaysian Borneo), will be built to a height...

Eco-justice in Nigeria.
July 1, 1996... International outrage over the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a prominent Nigerian writer and political activist, appears thus far to have had little effect on the behavior of that country's military government. (See Aaron Sachs, "Dying for Oil,"...

The expanding shadow economy.(Cover Story)
July 1, 1996... As globalization ties the world together more tightly, activities that are unaccountable are paradoxically increasing. They pose a growing threat to civil society - and a critical opportunity to reform the way we do business on this planet....

The river Ganges' long decline.
July 1, 1996... In the basin of a half-billion souls, purification and pollution swim together in unholy wedlock. According to Hindu mythology, the Ganges river of India - the goddess Ganga - came down to the earth from the skies. The descent was precipitated...

Violence against women.
July 1, 1996... It may be the biggest human rights issue in the world - and it is certainly one of the least discussed. Yet increasingly, women are finding ways to fight the mutilation, rape, beating, and murder that have been their lot. A GIRL IS MUTILATED...