“It smells horrible and there are flies everywhere: we can’t even open the windows! When it catches fire we have smoke here for days…everyone here, every single household here, is against the landfill!” In Uzbekistan’s arid Karakalpak region, dozens of people are...
As the Africa Facilitator of the Community Resource Exchange, I closely collaborate and learn from the people who should be driving the development agenda: the local communities, the people who really matter. I am learning how they solve their problems and keep up...
By Shoira Olimova, Medea Turashvili, Nina Lesikhina – originally published by the International Accountability Project “Through information sharing, we are able to know basic understanding and potential impacts of a specific proposed project. It is also...
Weaving a tapestry requires time and patience. When looking at single, loose threads, it is difficult to imagine the shapes they could form. But once threads are intertwined, the subtle filaments turn into a strong cloth and beautiful patterns emerge. We are...
This blog was written by Saswati Swetlena and Sreedhar Ramamurthi, who work for our member organization Environics Trust (India). The “Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti” movement is legendary. For 12 years, in the Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha (India), they have put...
When I talk about the work of the organization I joined at the beginning of 2021, I always get the same reaction: “So…you are going to talk about human rights to financial institutions?!” It seems incongruous to put human rights and financial institutions in the...
