Despite today’s rising concerns on the inequalities linked to the further consolidation of corporate power, the Maximising Finance for Development threatens to precisely entrench corporations’ hold – within the development agenda.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and what came to be later known as the World Bank Group (WBG) were established in the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference held at the United States (US).
The 2018 IMF-WB meetings are held ten years since the global financial crisis, withthe IMF-WB continuing to privilege the private sector and so-called business friendly investment climate.
Southern-based civil society organisation (CSO) IBON International joins movements in raising concern on the “tactics of repression” used by the Indonesian government’s police and militia against what the CSO called a “legitimate and justified people’s initiative.”
IBON International joins movements in denouncing Bali authorities’ moves to prevent a people’s conference to be held parallel to the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank.
IBON International joins movements in denouncing Bali authorities’ moves to prevent a people’s conference to be held parallel to the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank.
We call for peoples around the world to stand in solidarity with the Filipino people and its organisations who have been active in forwarding people’s development.
We are in solidarity with all Indian activists and rights defenders who have been subject to a crackdown by state forces in the past weeks.
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On October 8 to 14, people’s movements and civil society organisations will gather at the People’s Conference against IMF-World Bank in Bali, Indonesia, as the Annual Meetings run from October 12-14.
IBON International stands with Philippine progressives Rafael “Ka Paeng” Mariano and Liza Maza as courts dismissed a decade-old fabricated case against them and two other progressives.
On the same week as this year’s IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings, this Conference will gather the broadest assembly of people’s movements, non-government and civil society organizations adversely affected by IMF-WB’s policies and schemes.
On the same week as this year’s IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings, this Conference will gather the broadest assembly of people’s movements, non-government and civil society organizations adversely affected by IMF-WB’s policies and schemes.
Photo: Indigenous peoples and support groups mobilise in Manila, Philippines The 2018 International Day of the World’s Indigenous People’s Day aims to shed attention to
OceanaGold operations reveal the danger of persisting neoliberal policy norms from which many other transnational corporations benefit.
Reflections on the workers’ assertion of their rights and sovereignty.