by Tom Weerachat Starting in March through May 2022, around breakfast time in Haiti and Paraguay, the second cup of afternoon tea in Zimbabwe and Kenya, when people are wrapping up their work in Armenia, and right after dinner time in Indonesia and the Philippines, the new cohort of the…

by Elias Jika “The chiefs and government officials forced us to sell our land. We were told that if we did not comply, our land would be taken for free because the government can do as it pleases.” “On the day we received the compensation for our land, officials from…

Written by Alessandro Ramazzotti, Vaishnavi Varadarajan and Vanessa Peter, Photos by IRCDUC Raja (not his real name to protect identity) is one of the rights holders of the Madras Urban Development Project (MUDP) by the World Bank. He applied for a sale deed¹ for his house in December 2022, at…

Text by Carlo Manalansan Photos by Tom Weerachat “When people participate, they know what they want and take charge of the development process.” — Chrisphine Owalla, Community Initiative and Action Group (CIAG) Kenya

Por Layza da Rocha Soares e Alexandre Andrade Sampaio Tal como apresentado na primeira parte do sexto relatório de Avaliação do Painel Intergovernamental sobre Mudanças Climáticas, publicada em 9 de agosto de 2021, não restam mais dúvidas de que o aquecimento global tem sido provocado pelas atividades humanas, de que…

Por Alexandre Andrade Sampaio e Layza da Rocha Soares Imagems por Alexandre Andrade Sampaio e Brent Millikan Òlòrun Kosí Purè, Mãe Bernadete! Bernadete foi assassinada em agosto de 2023 com nada menos que 14 tiros, em frente a seus netos. Sua importância para o ativismo, para a política e para…

by Jocelyn Soto Medallo In 2020, the Early Warning System pivoted to tracking the development banks’ COVID-19 pandemic relief investments, as a response to the urgent needs of civil society and community partners who sought transparency around the billions of dollars committed to pandemic relief. With thanks to our many…

Text by John Mwebe Photos by Carlo Manalansan, Grace Murindi, and Naume Bhiza “Lizodingani? (What do you want here?)” one of the miners asked in local Ndebele to the research team “Why are you taking pictures? Are you journalists?” asked another. Disembarking from the car, Kundai Chikonzo and the research…

By Alexandre Andrade Sampaio Millions of dollars are pumped into factory farming projects by development finance institutions (DFIs) every year. These are projects linked to animal cruelty, deforestation, usurping of indigenous lands and ways of life, worsening climate change, promoting non-communicable and zoonotic diseases, and putting workers in a state…