Entries by TuK Indonesia
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Briefing on Forests and Finance website
In September 2016, RAN, Profundo and TuK launched the ‘Forests and Finance website. This briefing provides a quick overview of the website. Download
First of its Kind Online Platform Reveals the Banks and Investors Financing Companies Linked to Tropical Forest Loss in Southeast Asia
Financial sector under the spotlight in new international push to protect forests and forest communities FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Blair Fitzgibbon, [email protected] Singapore ––Today, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), TuK INDONESIA and Profundo announced the launch of a new, interactive online web platform as part of a growing Forests and Finance campaign targeting investors and financial institutions […]
Open Letter to Presiden World Bank and IFC
Dear World Bank President Kim and IFC President Le Houérou, We are writing to you with deep concerns about a number of World Bank and IFC-supported Indonesian Infrastructure funds, financial intermediaries, and projects, including on-going investments and support (including for coal mega-power plants), as well as projects in the pipeline and planned for Board vote, […]
World Water Day: Corruption in the water sector’s costly impact
Each year, between US$ 770 billion and $1,760 billion are needed to develop water resources and services worldwide. Yet the number of people without “safe” drinking water is about as large as those who lack access to basic sanitation: around 32 per cent of the world’s population in 2015. How can so much be […]
Fellow Honduran activist Nelson García murdered days after Berta Cáceres
The murder of another member of Berta Cáceres’ activist organisation Copinh comes amid growing fears for the safety of her colleagues and family members Hundreds gathered for the funeral of murdered indigenous activist Berta Cáceres, in La Esperanza on 5 March 2016. Photograph: Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images Another indigenous activist has been murdered in Honduras amid an escalating […]
The World Bank is supposed to help the poor. So why is it bankrolling oligarchs?
A mile north of the chaotic heart of downtown Rangoon, where electrical wires dangle haphazardly overhead and street vendors hawk roasted pig intestines, sits an upscale complex of 240 luxury residences overlooking the iconic Shwedagon Pagoda and a serene man-made lake. Marketed to wealthy expatriates and foreign businesspeople on extended stays in Burma’s bustling commercial capital, the newly […]
Honduran Leader Berta Cáceres Murdered in the Midst of a Life Defending Her Community
March 4, 2016 Kate Conradt This is a cross-post from the AFL-CIO Now blog. In her life and in her death at the hands of assassins this week, Berta Cáceres, a leader in Honduran struggles for social justice, exemplifies the difficult choices that so many Central American communities have faced over the past 40 years. When the […]
