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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…

Civil Society Denounces World Bank’s Conference on Land and Poverty

Source: Truthout March 18, 2015 Oakland, CA – Every spring for the last fifteen years, the World Bank has organized the “Conference onLand and Poverty,” which brings together corporations,…

CIVIL SOCIETY DENOUNCES WORLD BANK’S CONFERENCE ON LAND & POVERTY

Farmer organizations, indigenous groups, trade unions and other civil society organizations, under the umbrella of Our Land Our Business, call World Bank’s…