Researcher
Email: ola AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +48 601325242
Aleksandra (Ola) joined Bankwatch as an EIB coordinator's assistant in 2004. She has then become a Polish Green Network coordinator working on the human rights due diligence of the EIB. Since 2018, she also works as a researcher for the Make ICT Fair project.
Ola holds an MA degree in philosophy and a postgraduate diploma in Global Development Policy and Management. She has experience in cooperation and fundraising for African grassroots groups.
More from Aleksandra Antonowicz-Cyglicka
Today’s European Development Days forum in Brussels with its aspirational motto ‘building a world which leaves no one behind’ is an ironic backdrop to what is happening in the remote parts of Kenya, where a whole community is facing a threat of forced eviction by a project under appraisal of the EU’s own house bank. About a hundred people were demanded to abandon their homes by tomorrow – 20 June.
Celebrate the rights of those 5 per cent who hold 80 per cent of the planet’s biodiversity. Today is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Children dropping out of school, trees cut, people living in fear of another wave of forced evictions – the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) project reveals the critical absence of human rights safeguards in the EU’s overseas development financing.
The nearly 1,000 kilometre route connecting Mombasa and Lake Victoria has always been of key importance for the development of Eastern Africa. The narrow, crowded car road is still the main artery of the region. By 2020, the Kenya National Highways Aut
