Showing posts with label International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Show all posts
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Friday, April 17, 2015

RT — Uprooted & evicted: World Bank-funded projects force millions off their land

World Bank ventures in less developed countries are hurting the people the organization has sworn to protect, with almost four million people across the globe left homeless, forcefully evicted and relocated as a result of World Bank-funded projects.
A probe by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which examined World Bank's records in 14 countries, discovered that some 3.4 million of the “most vulnerable people” were forced off their land in the last decade.
The World Bank “has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances,” ICIJ states as one of its key findings.…
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Uprooted & evicted: World Bank-funded projects force millions off their land