Introduction

More than 70 non-governmental organisations are scaling up their challenges to the World Bank. We have fundamental concerns about the way the Bank operates.

The organisations backing the campaign are calling for European governments to press the Bank to accept specific reforms or to channel their funding elsewhere. The reforms are in the areas of economic policy reform and fossil fuel lending.

The declaration, signatory list and further details are posted in multiple languages. Use the menu on the right.

The World Bank Campaign Europe and The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal held a Public Hearing on the World Bank in October: ’WORLD vs. BANK’.

| Programme | More information | Testimonies | Biographies Witnesses and Experts | Declaration |Pictures | Visuals on the Testimonies | Video WORLD vs BANK |

German members of the campaign held a press conference and staged a drama on 13 December in and in front of the same hotel where the last IDA replenishment meetings took place. The stunt shows the World Bank executing renewable energies.
Trailer of the video
You can order the video about the Public Hearing from Friends of the Earth International - janneke@foei.org
Dublin, Irland, Nov. 2007
Irish activists dressed up as the Irish Finance Minister Brian Cowen and shouted in his ear through a giant megaphone to stop giving Irish aid to the World Bank. The media stunt was carried out by a group of development NGOs.

Tell your government to ensure that development aid is spent in the interests of the world’s most impoverished people.

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The Hague, Netherlands, 15 October 2007
The World Bank Campaign Europe organized a public hearing on the World Bank in co-operation with the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal. It took place on the 15th of October in The Hague, Netherlands, one week before the Annual Meetings of the World Bank.
Belgium, August 2007
Eurodad and CADTM took the campaign to the World Music Festival ‘Esperanza’ at Abbaye de Floreffe in Belgium. We talked to almost 600 people about World Bank economic conditionalities and lending for fossil fuel projects. All of these people cast their vote to demand development policies that help reduce poverty and prevent climate change.
Germany, June 2007
The live voting action of the campaign was launched with a mobile ballot box at the Alternative G8 Summit.
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