Jun 19, 2020
World Bank slammed for response on disastrous dam project
The organization has denied responsibility for violence by police and security guards against communities who protested a doomed Guatemalan dam.
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Mar 10, 2020
World Bank amplifies accountability to communities affected by its projects
The World Bank is beefing up its accountability to communities who say they were harmed by World Bank-funded projects.
Dec 18, 2019
World Bank Drags Feet in Probe of Activist’s Murder
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.
Apr 10, 2019
The World Bank is Still Hooked on Fossil Fuels Despite Climate Pledge
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.
Mar 13, 2019
No Longer Above The Law, The World Bank Faces Fight Of Its Life
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.
Feb 27, 2019
World Bank’s Legal Immunity Stripped, Opening Door for Lawsuits
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling could also open other American-based international organizations to lawsuits over financing overseas development.
Nov 01, 2018
Indian fishing community tests World Bank immunity before US Supreme Court
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.
Oct 12, 2018
Villagers In Limbo As World Bank Abandons Controversial Kosovo Power Plant
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.
Jul 20, 2017
How ICIJ revealed the World Bank’s broken promises
ICIJ's reporter Sasha Chavkin takes you behind the scenes of the Evicted and Abandoned investigation in a podcast by ProPublica.
Mar 07, 2017
Lawsuit: World Bank arm aided firm that hired ‘death squads’
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.
Aug 24, 2016
Columbia University honors ICIJ’s World Bank probe
Evicted and Abandoned has been named an Oakes Award finalist, marking the 11th time the project has been recognized by journalism prizes.
Aug 02, 2016
Debate surrounds World Bank’s proposed new safeguards rules
ICIJ analyzes five of the most significant changes to the bank’s social and environmental protection policies amid criticism from activists.
Jun 17, 2016
In photos: Evicted tribe say they’re left with nowhere to go
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.
Jun 17, 2016
World Bank Allows Tanzania To Sidestep Rule Protecting Indigenous Groups
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.
Apr 14, 2016
‘Nowhere to go:’ evicted woman confronts World Bank watchdog
Forced displacement is one of the most common and intractable harms caused by World Bank projects, a new report has found.
Mar 21, 2016
World Bank resurrects program tied to evictions, study claims
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.
Dec 22, 2015
World Bank rolls out reforms to address resettlement failures
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.
Oct 26, 2015
World Bank-Backed Projects Threaten Indigenous Communities’ Ways of Life
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.
Oct 20, 2015
Evicted families ‘are angry and feel like nobody cares’
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.
Oct 09, 2015
Children Suffer as World Bank’s Borrowers Upend Lives
In the disappearing rainforests of Indonesia, a 9-year-old boy and his family cope with the trauma of eviction.
Oct 07, 2015
How a World Bank Translator Became a Hunted Man
Human rights advocates have criticized the bank for failing to speak up about the jailing of a former employee.
Sep 28, 2015
Evicted and Abandoned investigation wins top award
The project by ICIJ, HuffPost and partners has been awarded a prize for innovative investigative journalism from the Online News Association.
Sep 22, 2015
Ethiopia targets former World Bank translator in crackdown on dissent
A former bank worker, who also assisted ICIJ during a reporting trip, faces life in prison for charges that rights groups decry as "absurd."
Sep 09, 2015
World Bank Does Little As Villagers Threatened and Jailed for Protesting Big Projects
Rights campaigners claim the World Bank has repeatedly failed to intervene to stop its borrowers from cracking down on critics.
Aug 05, 2015
World Bank safeguard proposal ‘dangerous,’ rights groups say
Advocacy groups say the bank's proposed new standards will "vastly weaken protections" for communities caught in the path of development.