The World Bank’s Empire: Exploitation and the Fightback
Prafulla Samantara, founder of the Lok Shakti Abhiyan and Goldman Environmental Prize Laureate (2017), speaks at the Independent People’s Tribunal: World Bank on Trial on “The World Bank’s Empire: Exploitation and the Fightback.”
The tribunal, on the 80th anniversary of the World Bank and IMF, challenged the impact of international financial institutions. The IPT, created in 1993, is an independent forum of judges, experts, and activists that investigates human rights and environmental abuses when official institutions fail
