HOW FINANCIERS TURNED A BLIND EYE TO PARAGUAY’S DEFORESTATION CRISIS

On 30 March, Global Witness issued a report saying that several major European and US financiers, including HSBC, Bank of America, Santander and the Netherlands’s biggest pension fund have helped bankroll what has been named the “world’s worst deforestation crisis” in Paraguay, holding or increasing shares in meatpacking giants accused of deforestation and land-grabbing in South America’s second largest forest, the Gran Chaco.

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/forests/cash-cattle-and-the-gran-chaco/

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STOLEN ASSET RECOVERY INITIATIVE (StAR) ANNUAL REPORT 2022

On 30 March, the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative, a partnership between the World Bank Group and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) that supports international efforts to end safe havens for corrupt funds, has issued its report for 2022.

https://star.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/StAR-annual-2022-06.pdf?cid=EFI_TT_AssetRecovery_EN_EXT

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