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A 2021 World Bank-financed project in Uganda was supposed to help communities to sustainably manage local areas and to cope with the impacts of Covid-19. But at one site, the Toro Semliki Wildlife Res

Doctors, nurses, journalists and other frontline workers who criticised responses to COVID-19 have been threatened, attacked or arrested.

Bénédicte Jeannerod is France director at Human Rights Watch. Lorena Cotza is communications lead at Coalition for Human Rights in Development. As it prepares to celebrate its 30th anniversary on April 15, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is boasting about its commitments to sustainable development, democracy, and equality. When we look at how and where EBRD invests, though, its shameless hypocrisy becomes apparent. And its political mission - to assist only countri...