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---For Immediate Release--- Civil Society Rejects the World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business RankingsWorld Bank’s Rankings Denounced as an Illegitimate Report Card Contact:Anuradha Mittal, 510-469-5228, [email protected](Oakland, CA): Some 260 civil society organizations from around the world have joined forces to send a resounding rejection to the World Bank’s 2015 Doing Business report, which is to be released on October 29.Since 2002, the Bank’s Doing Business project has been benchmarking and ranking countries on the ease of doing business.

Pour diffusion immédiate: lundi 6 octobre 2014CONTACT:Frédéric Mousseau, [email protected], +1 510-512-5458 Paysans et ONGs descendent dans les rues dans plus d’une dizaine de villes pour exiger la fin des politiques de développement corrompues de la Banque MondialeDes « résistances créatives » seront mises en scène les 10 et 11 Octobre à l’occasion des réunions annuelles de la Banque Mondiale à Washington, DC et dans le monde entier.** #WorldvsBank | www.ourlandourbusiness.org **Washington, DC - Le 10 Octobre 2014, des ONG, organisations paysannes et représentants de la société c

---For Immediate Release--- Lire en francaisFarmers, Indigenous Peoples, and NGOs Take to Streets in Ten Cities Demanding an End to World Bank’s Morally Bankrupt Development Groups Will Stage "Creative Resistance" Outside of Bank’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.—and around the World—on October 10th & 11th #WorldVsBank | www.ourlandourbusiness.org Contacts:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected], 510-469-5228Alnoor Ladha, [email protected], 917-971-7968Washington, D.C.

For immediate releaseWorld Bank Turns Its Back on Rights Protections for the PoorGlobal civil society response gathers momentum (New York, London, New Delhi, July 29, 2014) - Civil society organisations around the world are decrying a leaked draft of the World Bank's proposed new policies to avoid harmful impacts from the development projects that it finances.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE---Contacts:Frédéric Mousseau +33-678-585103;[email protected] Mittal, +1 510-530-5126;[email protected] Oakland, California--A new report from the Oakland Institute, Walking on the West Side: the World Bank and the IMF in the Ukraine Conflict,exposes how the international financial institutions swooped in on the heels of the political upheaval and are vying to deregulate and throw open Ukraine’s vast agricultural sector to foreign investors.

Для немедленного выпускаКонтакты:Фредерик Муссо [email protected]Анурада Митталь +1 [email protected] Окленд, Калифорния - Новый доклад Оклендского Института, Прогуливаясь по Западной Стороне: Всемирный Банк и МВФ в украинском конфликте, раскрывает, как международные финансовые учреждения, пользуясь свершившимся политическим переворотом в стране, соперничают, в том, чтобы воспрепятствовать госрегулированию и бросить обширный открытый сельскохозяйственный сектор Украины иностранным инвесторам.

For Immediate Release June 30, 2014Contacts: Frédéric Mousseau, The Oakland Institute, +1 (510) 512 54 58, [email protected] Penjueli, Pacific Network on Globalisation + (679) 3316722, [email protected] Rosa Koian, Bismarck Ramu Group, + (675) 4233011, [email protected] Oakland, California – The Oakland Institute, the Pacific Network on Globalization (PANG), and the Bismark Ramu Group welcome the announcement by Prime Minister Peter O’Neill that Papua New Guinea will cancel all illegally issued Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABLs) and abolish the provisions

Arrested, assaulted, and then charged with libel: this is just some of what land and environmental activist Nasako Besingi has faced while helping communities from the southwest region of Cameroon stop US company Herakles Farms from grabbing their lands for the development of a 20,000 hectare palm oil plantation.

Communiqué de presse de GRAIN, de l'Oakland Institute et du World Rainforest Movement Contacts : Nasako Besingi, Struggle to Economize Future Environment (SEFE) +23775136000, [email protected] Mousseau, Oakland Institute (FR, EN)+1510 512 5458, [email protected] Arrêté, agressé puis accusé de diffamation : ce n'est qu'une partie des pressions subies par Nasako Besingi, un défenseur de l'environnement et des droits fonciers, alors qu'il aidait les communautés de la région sud-ouest du Cameroun à empêcher la société américaine Herakles Farms (HF) de s'emparer de leurs

Media Contact:Anuradha [email protected]+1-510-469-5228 Oakland, CA – We Harvest–You Profit is a promise made by African Land Ltd., a UK-based company, that uses the idea of helping African communities, together with deception around yields and profits, to lure investors–including retired individuals–into handing over their life savings.“African Land Ltd. offers an opportunity for land investment in poor countries like Sierra Leone that sounds too good to pass up.