World Bank Safeguards Violated
The World Bank’s Inspection Panel (IP), which monitors the Bank’s compliance with its own policies, has identified an “operational link” between the Bank’s provision of support to Ethiopia for basic...
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Rape, Sex Trafficking, and the Bottom Line: Corporations’ Complicity in...
Rosa Eblira Coc Inh, one of the plaintiffs. (Photo by Roger LeMoyne, MacLeans) By Katie Cheney On January 17, 2007, 9 men entered the temporary home of Rosa Elbira Coc Ich, a Mayan Q’eqchi woman in...
View ArticleThousands Evicted for Clean Energy and Tourism
Thousands of Maasai pastoralists in Kenya and Tanzania are being forced off their lands at gunpoint by their respective governments. In Kenya, the evictions are intended to make way for geothermal...
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Indigenous People In Danger of Displacement: The Nicaraguan Canal and its...
Nicaraguans protest the canal construction[Photo source: Noticiero Digital]by Katie Redmiles “Vendepatria!”: an epithet for one who sells his own homeland, was shouted at the Nicaraguan government by...
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Keeping Tabs on Country Risk
In 2014, the Western Australian government announced that up to 150 of the state’s remote Aboriginal communities might be closed because their “lifestyle choices” are not financially viable. The...
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