Nasande Kadijah, seated in one of the village meetings. By witnessradio.org Team Nasande Kadijah, not real name due to fear of retaliation, is one of the...
Witness Radio’s Wokulira Ssebaggala addressing the press Community members in Kawaala Zone II in Kampala, Uganda have filed a complaint to the World Bank’s Inspection Panel...
By witnessradio.org Team Kampala – Uganda – more than 300 families at Kawaala Zone II, Lubaga Division in Kampala district have today, the 11th January...
(Originally published in the WRM Bulletin, Issue 252) The enduring legacy of a little-known World Bank project to secure African plantations for European billionaires In October 2020,...
A coal processing plant in Indonesia (Pic: Cassidy K/ILO/Flickr) By Isabelle Gerretsen The World Bank’s private lending branch is indirectly backing one of the world’s biggest new coal...
By witnessradio.org Team As the World Bank’s 20th Annual Land and Poverty Conference gets underway, the Oakland Institute is urging the World Bank to immediately put...
Oakland, CA – In advance of the release of the World Bank’s 2019 Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) report, the Oakland Institute exposes the Bank’s...
WASHINGTON, DC — In a historic decision, today the United States Supreme Court decided 7-1 to overturn the International Finance Corporation (IFC)’s claim to absolute immunity...
By witnessradio.org/farmlandgrab.org The World Bank Group between 2006 and 2016, has directly funded at least 14 large land deals spanning at least 900,000 hectares and provided...
Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust general manager Nelson Basaalidde (centre) demonstrates how oil palm is cultivated at the BIDCO factories in Kalangala. Net photo Kampala, Uganda...