TRAUMA TO YOUNG
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.
Evicted and Abandoned
The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor
The World Bank regularly failed to follow its own rules for protecting millions of people displaced by development.
In this investigation
PLIGHT OF THE DISPLACED
Video: Communities Pushed Aside Around the World
Mass evictions of the devoutly Christian Anuak people from Ethiopia were enabled by money from the World Bank, former officials say.
By Hilke Schellmann | April 16, 2015
DIVE INTO THE DATA
Explore 10 Years of World Bank Resettlement Data
Explore data from 120 countries and get an inside look at how the World Bank has displaced millions across the globe.
By Matthew Caruana Galizia | April 14, 2015
LEGAL BATTLE
No Longer Above The Law, The World Bank Faces Fight Of Its Life
Accountability
World Bank’s Legal Immunity Stripped, Opening Door for Lawsuits
EVICTED AND ABANDONED
Indian fishing community tests World Bank immunity before US Supreme Court
Environment
Villagers In Limbo As World Bank Abandons Controversial Kosovo Power Plant
Policy waiver sparks fears
World Bank Allows Tanzania To Sidestep Rule Protecting Indigenous Groups
Indigenous policy
World Bank-Backed Projects Threaten Indigenous Communities’ Ways of Life
World Bank
Evicted families ‘are angry and feel like nobody cares’
Reprisals
How a World Bank Translator Became a Hunted Man
Freedom of speech stifled
World Bank Does Little As Villagers Threatened and Jailed for Protesting Big Projects
Kosovo
War-Torn Village Faces New Threat As World Bank Considers Power Plant
Private sector projects
‘Bathed In Blood’: World Bank Arm Gave Loan Amid Deadly Land War
Evicted and Abandoned
Gallery: Communities Displaced by World Bank Projects
India
The World Bank Group’s Uncounted
Data FAQs
From Thousands of World Bank Documents, a Unique New Database
World Bank
Explainer: What is the World Bank?
About This Project: Evicted and Abandoned
Rights denied
New Evidence Ties World Bank to Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia
Key Findings
124 Countries, 969 Projects, 3.4m Displaced: Key Numbers
Overview
How the World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor
Introduction
World Bank Projects Leave Trail of Misery Around Globe
Evicted and Abandoned: Explore Stories From Around the World
Key findings
1
Over the last decade, projects funded by the World Bank have physically or economically displaced an estimated 3.4 million people, forcing them from their homes, taking their land or damaging their livelihoods.
2
The World Bank has regularly failed to live up to its own policies for protecting people harmed by projects it finances.
3
The World Bank and its private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation, have financed governments and companies accused of human rights violations such as rape, murder and torture. In some cases the lenders have continued to bankroll these borrowers after evidence of abuses emerged.
4
Ethiopian authorities diverted millions of dollars from a World Bank-supported project to fund a violent campaign of mass evictions, according to former officials who carried out the forced resettlement program.
5
From 2009 to 2013, World Bank Group lenders pumped $50 billion into projects graded the highest risk for “irreversible or unprecedented” social or environmental impacts — more than twice as much as the previous five-year span.
