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Article

14 Apr 2005

Author:
Global Witness, World Rainforest Movement, Forest Peoples Programme, Rainforest Foundation-UK, Down to Earth, Environmental Defense, Sinkswatch, CDMWatch

World Bank is contributing to destruction of world’s forests

A new independent report published today finds that programmes funded by the World Bank Group are causing destruction of the world’s remaining forests and harming poor people...Policy changes to promote industrial logging in the Congo Basin have been pushed through...without required public consultation and without measures to secure local community rights...