A World Bank watchdog detailed allegations of displacement, pollution and other serious harms at the company, and criticized the global development agency’s handling of the project.
The project was supposed to be a boon for wildlife-based tourism in the East African country, but critics say it came “at an enormous cost” to local communities.
The bank has pledged tens of billions to climate projects but can’t say how much was actually spent due to poor record-keeping, a new report found.
The organization has denied responsibility for violence by police and security guards against communities who protested a doomed Guatemalan dam.
The World Bank is beefing up its accountability to communities who say they were harmed by World Bank-funded projects.
Facing unclear legal risks following a U.S. court ruling, the World Bank Group has delayed releasing an internal probe into a doomed Guatemalan dam project.
The World Bank has vowed to be a leader in the global fight against climate change, but it continues to favor fossil fuels over renewable energy when it comes to lending.
Two impoverished communities, continents apart, are at the forefront of a historic fight to determine the level of immunity from lawsuits that international organizations can rely upon when development causes harm.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling could also open other American-based international organizations to lawsuits over financing overseas development.
A fishing community, who believe their livelihoods were damaged by pollution from an IFC-supported coal power plant, is attempting to sue the World Bank's finance arm in the U.S.
The decision ends the World Bank's support for coal worldwide, but also leaves villagers unsure of their fate as the Kosovo government vows to push ahead with the power plant.
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A new lawsuit alleges that the IFC aided a campaign of terror against peasants in Honduras who tried to block a palm oil company’s expansion.
Evicted and Abandoned has been named an Oakes Award finalist, marking the 11th time the project has been recognized by journalism prizes.
ICIJ analyzes five of the most significant changes to the bank’s social and environmental protection policies amid criticism from activists.
Tribes in Tanzania are facing eviction after the World Bank board granted a massive agribusiness project a waiver that exempts it from following one of the bank’s policies.
The World Bank’s board has granted a massive agribusiness project a waiver that exempts it from following the bank’s Indigenous Peoples Policy — sparking fears that the development lender is making an end run to resurrect a policy that it abandoned in public.
Forced displacement is one of the most common and intractable harms caused by World Bank projects, a new report has found.
A $600 million loan to Ethiopia’s government lacks proper oversight and “reinvents” a previous loan that was used to finance violent evictions, a new report says.
After years of delay, the bank is addressing sweeping failures in its oversight of projects that force people from their land or harm their livelihoods.
As a tribal group's homes burned in Kenya, a former World Bank official says the bank shut down his efforts to help defend their rights.
Q & A: Jocelyn Zuckerman was stunned by the destruction to both the land and people's lives she saw while reporting on an Indonesian palm oil plantation.
In the disappearing rainforests of Indonesia, a 9-year-old boy and his family cope with the trauma of eviction.
Human rights advocates have criticized the bank for failing to speak up about the jailing of a former employee.
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