Current location:health >>
Facing pressure from rights groups, World Bank suspends funding for Tanzania tourism project
health34133People have gathered around
IntroductionKAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that c ...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such action.
The World Bank’s decision to suspend the $150 million project, which aims to improve the management of natural resources and tourism assets in a remote part of southern Tanzanian, was “long overdue,” the Oakland Institute said in a statement Tuesday, charging that the bank’s “failure to take immediate action resulted in serious harms for the local communities.”
At least $100 million has already been disbursed for the project, which started in 2017. The suspension of World Bank financing took effect April 18.
The Oakland Institute, a California-based rights watchdog whose work focuses on marginalized communities, for years led calls for the World Bank to stop funding the project known by the acronym REGROW, documenting serious rights abuses suffered by Indigenous communities in the area.
Tags:
Reprint:Friends are welcome to share on the Internet, but please indicate the source of the article when reprinting it.“Culture Cross news portal”。http://monaco.izmirambar.net/article-20c799211.html
Related articles
The bodies of 4 men and 2 women were found strangled, piled up in Mexican resort of Acapulco
healthMEXICO CITY (AP) — The bodies of four men and two women were found strangled and dumped in a pile in ...
【health】
Read moreHow the US failed to stop a Cambodian monkey ‘smuggling conspiracy’ — Radio Free Asia
healthKry Masphal landed at Phnom Penh airport late last month to a hero’s welcome. His wife and children, ...
【health】
Read moreVictory for free speech in the face of Brussels bullies! Nigel Farage returns to right
healthNigel Farage returned to a hard-right conference in Belgium on Wednesday after a top court intervene ...
【health】
Read more
Popular articles
- Germany far
- How much of England's motorway network has no hard shoulder? This map reveals all...
- A neglected burial ground for migrants on Greek island of Lesbos has been given a drastic overhaul
- Artemi Panarin has career year with MVP
- Microsoft's AI chatbot will remember everything you do on a PC
- Duke's Jeremy Roach announces plans to enter NBA draft and transfer portal
Latest articles
Spain withdraws its ambassador to Argentina over comments made by President Milei
Pilot who died last week in Indiana plane crash was Purdue student, authorities say
Was Dubai's apocalyptic storm SELF
Victory for free speech in the face of Brussels bullies! Nigel Farage returns to right
Wayne Bennett, at 74, signs a 3
Owner of ship in Baltimore bridge collapse asks cargo owners to help cover salvage costs
LINKS
- Commentary: Xizang's remarkable development debunks groundless Western accusations
- More Australian towns threatened by massive bushfire
- Bazaar train boosts incomes for residents in Xinjiang, NW China
- Desert county in NW China's Xinjiang experiences bountiful cistanche harvest
- Feature: China
- Commentary: Provocations by the Philippines in South China Sea unwise, futile
- Artificial intelligence holds key to future education
- New air route links Changsha, Mongolia
- China's political advisors discuss foundations of food security
- Xi Holds Talks with Surinamese President