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April 2, 2020 News Release

Tanzania: World Bank Okays Discriminatory Education Loan

Should Require End to Ban on Pregnant Girls’ Schooling

© 2017 Marco Tibasima for Human Rights Watch
January 27, 2020 News Release

Tanzania: World Bank Disregarding Ban on Pregnant Schoolgirls

Require Government to Admit all Girls Before Approving Education Loan

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November 21, 2019 Letter

Joint NGO Letter to IMF Executive Board: Delay Vote on Equatorial Guinean Loan

November 21, 2019 News Release

IMF: Delay Vote on Equatorial Guinea Loan

Risk of Subsidizing Systemic Abuses, Corruption

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April 16, 2019 Dispatches

Forced Labor Lives on in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields

Reforms Need to Target the Underlying Soviet-Era System Encouraging Forced Labor

Women carrying bags of cotton to be weighed and loaded onto a truck in Jizzakh region during the 2016 cotton harvest. The government typically requires people to meet a daily quota of cotton picked, from which the costs of food and transport are deducted.
April 11, 2019 Commentary

IMF Puts Renewed Focus on Corruption

Concrete Measures Needed to Curb Corruption

International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2017.
March 25, 2019 Commentary

How the World Bank Can Stop Funding Disaster

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled the World Bank can be sued, what’s next for the organization?

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June 12, 2018 News Release

Afghanistan: World Bank Should Aid Girls’ Education

Act Urgently to Reverse the Declining Number in School

Girls sit for lessons on a stairwell inside a school building.
June 12, 2018 Letter

Letter to the World Bank re Education Quality Reform in Afghanistan (EQRA) project

To Vice Presidents Dixon and Sennhauser

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May 25, 2018 Dispatches

New Research Shows Forced Labor Still Rampant in Uzbekistan

World Bank President Jim Kim Should Press to Eliminate Labor Abuses

A woman picks cotton during the 2015 cotton harvest, which runs from early September to late October or early November annually.
May 16, 2018 Dispatches

The World Bank Should Stop Dodging Accountability

US Supreme Court Challenge Calls Legal Immunity Into Question

Police officers stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2018.
April 24, 2018 Dispatches

New IMF Anti-Corruption Blueprint Holds Promise

New Policy Aims to Assist Countries in the Fight Against Corruption

International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters building is seen during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Washington, U.S., October 14, 2017.
April 24, 2018 Dispatches

UN High Commissioner Calls on World Bank to ‘Marry’ Rights and Development

Human Rights Are ‘Also Your Job’ World Bank Gathering Told

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland February 26, 2018.
December 4, 2017 Letter

Letter to the World Bank on the Environmental and Social Standards Guidance Notes

December 4, 2017 News Release

World Bank: Missed Opportunity to Protect Communities

Draft Guidance Notes Offers Little Practical Advice to Borrowers

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