Neil Tangri, Samar

NEW DELHI (12 November 2007) – In September 2007, over six hundred people assembled in New Delhi to put the World Bank on trial. In four days of parallel sessions in front of more than a dozen judges, people from all walks of life aired their grievances against one of the world's most powerful institutions. In convening an Independent People's Tribunal on the World Bank in India, they did more than simply chalk up another protest against injustice.   [More]

Neha Sakhuja, Arnab Pratim Dutta, Down to Earth

NEW DELHI (31 October 2007) – criticism against the World Bank (wb) has just become strident. At a time when India has become the biggest recipient of wb loans, a people’s tribunal in Delhi has accused the bank of trying to influence the country’s policies in favour of the corporate sector. Questions are also being raised whether it is India or the bank that benefits from the lending business.   [More]

Neil Tangri, Combat Law

NEW DELHI (September/October 2007) – An independent people's tribunal on the World Bank Group is being organised in New Delhi. The tribunal attempts to do more than simply chalk up another protest against injustice.   [More]

Sonal Kellogg, The Asian Age

NEW DELHI (27 September 2007) – Rattled by the allegations on their operations in India made by economists and social activists in an Independent People's Tribunal, World Bank has posted their defence on their website.   [More]

Focus on Global South

NEW DELHI (25 September 2007) – The four day Independent Peoples Tribunal (IPT) on the World Bank in India concluded here today hearing numerous depositions indicting the Bank's policy and project interventions in India.   [More]

The Asian Age

NEW DELHI (25 September 2007) – The four-day Independent People's Tribunal (IPT) on the World Bank in India concluded here hearing numerous depositions indicting the bank's policy and project interventions in India. However, officials of the World Bank did not defend their stand at the tribunal despite coming daily to collect the depositions, it was learnt.   [More]

The South Asian

NEW DELHI (23 September 2007) – The Independent Peoples Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India got underway at New Delhi today at a packed auditorium at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).   [More]

Sonal Kellogg, The Asian Age

NEW DELHI (21 September 2007) – The World Bank has a history of giving loans to India for development projects, but these come frequently with conditions that limit the Indian government to set their own policies, allege social analysts and economists.   [More]

Sonal Kellogg, The Asian Age

NEW DELHI (20 September 2007) – Dozens of bureaucrats, some in top posts in India, like deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former finance secretary Shakar Acharya, former RBI governor Bimal Jalan and former director-general of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research R.A. Mashelkar have, over the years, worked with the World Bank, World Trade Organisation, USAID and other international bodies for years.   [More]

The Indian Express

NEW DELHI (20 September 2007) – Over 50 organisations from all over India will meet this week to convene an Independent People’s Tribunal on the World Bank in India. The tribunal, the first of its kind, will give an opportunity for impacted communities to present testimony, evidence and research on the impacts of World Bank’s policies and projects.   [More]

HT, Hindustan Times

NEW DELHI (18 September 2007) – A people's tribunal will converge in New Delhi for four days starting September 21 to "renew the debate on the World Bank-guided neo-liberal economic policies" of the government.   [More]