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Today the World Bank released a scandalous internal investigation of child sexual abuse allegations at private schools funded by its private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Although World Bank President Ajay Banga has expressed contrition, the IFC’s official management response fails to offer meaningful remedy to the survivors of abuse that it turned a blind eye to for almost a decade.  

Accountability Counsel, Inclusive Development International,  Gender Action and Urgewald urge Executive Directors to reject the IFC's response and demand justice for child sexual abuse victims.

New Urgewald research shows the large amounts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) that EU member states such as Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Spain keep receiving from Russia, two years after its war of aggression against Ukraine began. 

The environmental and human rights organization Urgewald (Germany), the Port Arthur Community Action Network (USA), and the Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development – CEED (Philippines) address the massive global build-out of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and amplify the voices of frontline communities in North America and Southeast Asia.

A new report on the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) highlights its outsized oil & gas expansion and the international financiers and oil majors who actively support it.

96% of upstream companies still exploring or developing new oil and gas fields

Global gas-fired power capacity set to rise by 30%