Complaints against rubber company to be assessed, World Bank Office says
The World Bank’s ombudsman office says it will assess a complaint from indigenous groups in Ratanakkiri province that a bank-supported company has damaged the forest and surrounding communities. …
Seventeen different groups joined in the complaint, claiming the Hoang Anh Gia Lai rubber company, which receives financing from the bank’s International Finance Corporation, had destroyed forestry lands affecting as many as 2,000 families. …
