The World Bank is one of the most powerful institutions in the world, and belongs with the International Monetary Fund, IMF. Both of these organisations commit great crimes against human rights by setting tough neoliberalistic demands on poor countries in exchange for loans. Their aim is a better world, but in the soon sixty years the WB has existed their policy and methods have only increased poverty and this has especially struck women and children.

World poverty can not be solved through neoliberalism! The consequences will be as in Norway: poorer schools, fewer hospitals and less social security. Everything is privatized and in the end only to the benefit of a few who are already rich, such as foreign investors who can afford to buy up the public sector and make a profit off of it.

The 24 to the 26 of june 2002 the World Bank is holding its annual yearly development meeting (ABCDE) in Oslo.

Oslo2002 and others in Norway are mobilizing people to protest against the World Bank’s policies while they are meeting here. Before the meeting there will be held a big countersummit, like the one we saw in Genova last summer. During the meeting itself there will be several demonstrations and a Reclaim the Streets on the evening of the 24. IMC Norway will be covering the event, centered at a currently undisclosed location. Where it will be will be posted on the indymedia.no - page when the event has started.

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