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When Fear and Favor Rule: The World Bank’s Systemic Land Displacement

Source: The Feminist Wire May 6, 2015 According to the UN’s Trade and Environment Review, food security, poverty, gender inequality, and climate…

Investigative Report Finds World Bank Displaced 3.4 Million People

Source: The Real News May 5, 2015 View Full Article at The Real News

Civil Society Asks 3 Critical Questions of the World Bank at its 2015 Spring Meetings

Source: Standard Times Press April 21, 2015 #OLOB | www.ourlandourbusiness.org Contact: Anuradha Mittal, amittal@oaklandinstitute.org, +1 510-469-5228Alnoor Ladha, Alnoor@therules.org, +27 60 853 9810Joseph…

CIVIL SOCIETY ASKS 3 CRITICAL QUESTIONS OF THE WORLD BANK AT ITS 2015 SPRING MEETINGS

#OLOB | www.ourlandourbus.wpengine.com Contact: Anuradha Mittal, amittal@oaklandinstitute.org, +1 510-469-5228 Alnoor Ladha, Alnoor@therules.org, +27 60 853 9810 Joseph Rahall, jorahall@yahoo.com, +232 76 601979  …

New Name, Same Game

In March 2014, the multicontinental campaign Our Land Our Business was launched to demand the end of the World Bank’s Doing Business…

The World Bank’s race to the bottom

Source: The Guardian April 16, 2015 by Jeff Furman For 13 years, the World Bank’s landmark publication, Doing Business, has ranked countries…

Civil Society Denounces World Bank’s ‘deceitful’ Conference on Land & Poverty

Source: Afro London News April 15, 2015 For the last fifteen years, the World Bank has been organizing “Conferences on Land and…

Civil society denounces World Bank’s Conference on land and poverty

Source: PACNEWS April 1, 2015 Every spring for the last fifteen years, the World Bank has organized the “Conference on Land and…

World Bank’s confab on land & poverty is a sham – CSOs

Source: GhanaWeb March 22, 2015 Farmer organisations, indigenous groups, trade unions and other civil society organisations, under the umbrella of “our land…

World Bank’s Conference on Land & Poverty is a Cruel Farce

Source: The Ecologist March 21, 2015 Oliver Tickell20th March 2015 On Monday the World Bank’s Conference on Land and Poverty begins in…