Country
Sector
Impacted Communities
Violations/Impacts
- All Collaborator Violations/Impacts
- Conflict & militarization
- Consultations / access to information
- Corruption / Fraud
- Cultural Heritage
- Displacement & land grabbing
- Environmental impacts: Biodiversity
- Environmental impacts: Climate change
- Environmental impacts: Pollution
- FPIC & Indigenous Peoples’ rights
- Gender-based violence and impacts
- Health & Safety
- Loss of livelihoods / Food insecurity / Increased cost of living
- Obstruction of monitoring
- Property damage
- Reprisals
- Water
Types of financiers
Financiers
- All Collaborator Financiers
- Aboitiz Equity Ventures (AEV)
- ADB
- AfDB
- Africa Oil Corporation
- AIIB
- ANZ Bank Australia
- Australis Seafoods
- Ayala Corporation
- Bank of China
- Bluestone Resources
- BNP Paribas
- BNP Paribas Singapore LTD
- Canadian B2Gold
- Central Cipta Murdaya (CCM) Holding
- China Construction Bank
- China Exim Bank
- China Eximbank
- Chinese Overseas Finance
- CITI Group USA
- CITIC Group Corporation Ltd
- Comisión Federal de Electricidad
- Corporación Eléctrica del Ecuador
- Credit Suisse AG Switzerland
- DFC
- Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank
- EBRD
- EIB
- Ellington Properties Development
- Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica
- EU
- Export-Import Bank of India
- Filminera Resources Corporation
- First Patriot Mining Company
- French Development agency
- Gazelle Ventures
- Government
- Hana Financial Group
- Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
- IFAD
- IFC
- Indorama Corporation
- Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited
- ING Bank N.V
- International Finance Corporation
- Japan Bank for International Cooperation
- Japan International Cooperation agency
- Legend Holdings
- Lombardi Group
- Lydian Armenia CJSC
- MIGA
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
- Mizuho Bank Ltd Japan
- Nordic Development Bank
- Oriental Ressources Congo Sarl
- Oyu Tolgoi
- Pacific Rim/Oceana Gold
- Salala Rubber Plantation
- San Miguel Corporation
- Sinohydro Corporation Limited
- Socfin
- Société Générale
- Standard Bank
- Total Energies
- Uganda Electricity Generation Company Ltd.
- World Bank
In Uzebkistan, the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights trained local monitors to look at the World Bank-funded Rural Development Infrastructure Project. The activities resulted in better community awareness and engagement with local stakeholders.
Through community mobilization and information dissemination, the Centre for Environmental Justice is defending the rights of local farmers in Rideemaliyadda, who are resisting against a proposed sugarcane project spearheaded by the Singapore-based company Gazelle Ventures.
EcoLur is an Armenian environmental organization - member of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development - that raises public awareness about environmental issues, advocates for nature protection, and supports public participation in environmental decision-making. In recent years, EcoLur has been supporting the community in Vardenis affected by the Masrik-1 solar power station.
In Bangladesh, Initiative for Right View (IRV) is supporting the communities impacted by the Rampal coal power plant, which has displaced hundred of families and is threatening the World Heritage Site of Sunderbans Mangrove Forest.
The Pueblo Shuar Arutam (PSHA), a governing council representing 47 Shuar communities across the ancestral Amazonian territory in Ecuador, are resisting the Hidroeléctrica Santiago project promoted by the state-owned energy company CELEC and private investors, which threatens their rivers, culture, and way of life.
In Georgia, the local community living near the Poti port is speaking out about the severe air pollution, due to the millions of bulk cargo processed out in the open. The community has been demanding environmental protection measures, raising awareness about the health impacts, and conducting advocacy at the local and international level (including with DFC, one of the port's financiers).
Since 2017, MODETEAB (Movimiento por la Defensa de los Territorios y Ecosistemas de Bocas del Toro) has been resisting the construction of the IFC-funded Transmission Line IV project, which aims to run 330 kilometers along the Atlantic coast, crossing numerous indigenous lands and violating their rights.
The Asociación de Desarrollo Económico y Social (ADES), together with the communities of Santa Marta in Cabañas, El Salvador, is resisting government attempts to revive large-scale metallic mining projects that threaten their lands and water sources.
In Chile, Agrupación Ciudadana Última Esperanza (A.C.U.E.) is fighting alongside artisanal fishers, family farmers, and the Indigenous Kawésqar people to resist the salmon industry’s expansion, specifically the Puerto Demaistre processing plant.
In the north of the Philippines, the Kabugao Youth Organization is resisting the hydro-power plants Gened-1 and Gened-2, built by the Pan Pacific Renewable Power Philippines Corporation. They have been mobilizing the local community and filing legal cases to stop the project, which was imposed violating the rights of the local Indigenous community.
With the support of Green Development Advocates (GDA), riverside communities of the Sanaga River in Cameroon have taken on legal action turning their struggle against the Nachtigal Hydro Power Project into a collective fight for justice and accountability.
In Nepal, the professional Women behind the Indigenous Women Legal Awareness Group are advocating against the Tanahu Hydropower project by engaging financiers’ accountability mechanisms, strengthening community capacity, and providing legal support to affected indigenous Women. The company behind the project, Tanahu Hydropower Limited, has yet to respect FPIC – despite the risks of harmful impact on indigenous lands and livelihoods.
For over two decades, palm oil company PT. Hardaya Inti Plantations in Indonesia's Buol District has seized thousands of hectars of land from indigenous people in the area and committed serious rights violations. In response, Forum Petani Plasma Buol (FPPB) has been mobilizing local farmers, raising awareness about the project's impact, building alliances at the local and international level, and demanding justice.
Nomad Rights, a human rights organization in Astana, has been resisting the build of a tourist complex by the UAE company Ellington Properties Development LLS since 2019. With a territory of around 160 hectare, the project threatened to displace resident families, leaving them without compensation or alternative housing. With CRE support, Nomad Rights provided legal assistance and launched advocacy efforts supporting affected residents. They organized community gatherings, legal consultations, advocacy meetings with authorities, and prepared legislative proposals. As a result, nine families were able to legalize their homes and receive monetary compensation, minimizing the risk of homelessness and loss of basic living conditions.
Driven by their desire to address social injustices in Uganda, the Oil Refinery Residents Association (ORRA) together with the Youth for Green Communities (YGC) set out to empower local communities impacted by the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). Through CRE support, the organizations were able to link oil-impacted Indigenous communities, raising awareness about their rights and strengthen participatory advocacy action. They amplified local voices through social media, provided legal support, and shared strategies with other human rights defenders worldwide.