29 April 2025, New York, NY — “We want a UN Framework Convention on Sovereign Debt!”, debt and climate justice activists from the US, Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe stressed in a public action today in front of the United Nations in New York. The action was Led byContinue Reading
PRESS RELEASE: 18th March, 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal The International People’s Tribunal vs. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)and World Bank (WB) concluded its third hearing with demands to stop the IMF and World Bank’s harmful policies. The two-day tribunal session on March 15-16 heard witnesses testifying to decades of destructionContinue Reading
Press Release: December 6, 2024 Kolkata: On the occasion of the World Bank Group and IMF institutions celebrating their 80th anniversary, people’s movements, trade unions, civil society organisations and concerned citizens are holding an Independent People’s Tribunal on World Bank in Kolkata on December 7 & 8, senior leaders announcedContinue Reading
“Stop the Harm, Reparations Now!” Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from more than 50 countries, today rallied anew behind the call targeting the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, in the lead-up to the international financial institutions’ (IFIs) annual meetings in Washington DC. Launching the Global Days of Action againstContinue Reading
A call to uphold human rights, justice and democratic freedoms The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD) expresses in the strongest terms its condemnation of the violent and punitive acts of repression sweeping the capital city of Dhaka in Bangladesh. We view with great outrage reports of moreContinue Reading
On the occasion of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Mizuho, MUFG, SMBC Climate campaigners slammed three of Japan’s megabanks for deceiving the public and their shareholders into believing that they are pursuing decarbonization policies when in fact they are financing some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel projects,Continue Reading