VOA's Paul Ndiho reports on the controversy over the World Bank funds for projects in South Sudan.

Utrecht, 2 February 2010. Multistakeholder Consultation on the World Bank Group Environment Strategy 2010, hosted by ICCO. Full recording of the session:
1. Presentation of the World Bank Group concept note on 2010 Environment Strategy
2. Intervention by Paul Wolvekamp (Both ENDS) and Ekko van Ierland (Wageningen University)
3. Debate and conclusions

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Committee for the Integral Audit of Public Credit. Report of the event, part 1. Ecuador.

Bill Nighy appears in a video backing a Robin Hood tax on banks to raise billions of pounds to fight poverty and climate change.

Idris Elbai has joined the Oxfam campaign calling on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to drop Haiti's Debt.

On the 20th of November 2009 the Dutch NGO Both ENDS organised a Political Cafe in The Hague. In the debate a diverse panel gave their opinion on investments made by the European Investment Bank. This bank invested in a hydro-power dam in Uganda and a paper pulp mill in Brazil. In Both cases the local population and the environment were severely damaged.

* Strauss-Kahn proposes “Green Fund” to help finance shift to low-carbon world
* Says IMF to release proposals in a few weeks
* Fund could be created partly through issuance of IMF’s special drawing rights (SDRs)

Antonia Juhasc launches a book on the history of the World Bank and IMF at Cody's bookshop in San Francisco.

Sometimes in history, political and business leaders are pushed to make momentous decisions—decisions that mean real change, and have great impact.

Such decisions are never made lightly, but rather because the alternative is too dire to contemplate.