Last week, the World Bank’s board met to make a decision on an Inspection Panel report about a Bank project in Kenya. The Inspection Panel’s report accused the Bank of failing to protect the rights of the Sengwer forest indigenous community.
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Evictions of Sengwer indigenous people: World Bank violates safeguards in Kenya
The World Bank’s inspection panel has found that the Bank violated its safeguards in a conservation project in the Cherangany Hills in Kenya. Thousands of Sengwer indigenous people have been evicted and their homes burned down.
The New York Declaration on Forests: An agreement to continue deforestation until 2030
How the New York Declaration on Forests came from Davos to New York, via Washington. But skipped Brasilia.
“Entrenched injustices continue to characterize forest governance in the global south”, says the Global Environmental Justice research group
The Global Environmental Justice research group is an international group of activists, academics and researchers “interested in the linkages between social justice and environmental change, with a particular focus on the global dimensions of (in)justice”.
Gold mining in Guyana: Is this what the Low Carbon Development Strategy looks like?
Gold mining in Guyana is booming. It’s the country’s biggest export. Last year Guyana exported gold worth US$1 billion. But government is failing to address the serious environmental and social impacts caused by gold mining.