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With our members and partners, we work to ensure that frontline communities have the information, power and resources to determine their own development paths, and to use their own voice to hold development banks and other actors accountable for their impacts on people and the planet. Find out more reading the latest updates on our work and our collective campaigns!
Defenders in Development campaign declaration
A global campaign for a new model of development that advances the realization of human rights and safeguards those who defend them We seek a world in which individuals, communities, groups and peoples are able to exercise their fundamental human rights, determining and pursuing their own priorities about their lives, their futures, their lands and natural resources. We envision a world where development processes and activities advance the realization of human rights, respond to the needs and...
Statement on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
As we celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we stand in solidarity with indigenous peoples all around the world fighting for a fair, just and sustainable future. In many cases these indigenous human rights defenders are under attack - subjected to threats, criminalization and violence. It is time for governments, development finance institutions, and other development actors to work with indigenous peoples, ensuring that development interventions advance the human...
Indigenous tell IDBInvest to divest from Guatemala dams
This week as we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, communities affected by the Pojom II and San Andrés dams in the microregion of Ixquisis, Guatemala, filed a complaint with the independent accountability mechanism of the Inter-American Development Bank urging IDB Invest, the bank's private sector arm, to divest. The complaint is supported by the Asociación Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente (AIDA), the Plataforma Internacional contra la Impunidad and the Ancestral and Plurinacional...
200 groups gathered in Mumbai criticize Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank AIIB
200 groups gathered in Mumbai criticize Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as following same paradigm as traditional IFIs, promoting corporate globalisation and neoliberal economic reforms that benefit elite at the cost of the poor. Read the complete Mumbai Resolution on Infrastructure Financing in English here.
DAR: Taller com MICI sobre la rendición de cuentas y el rol de la sociedad civil
LIMA, PERU - En el 8 de junio se realizó el taller sobre Financiamiento Internacional, rendición de cuentas y el rol de la sociedad civil organizado por Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) junto con el Mecanismo Independiente de Consulta e Investigación (MICI) del BID, en donde se presentó el funcionamiento de este mecanismo con la finalidad de que las organizaciones de la sociedad civil accedan a este y puedan usarlo de manera efectiva en los casos de vulneraciones que se puedan...
Report: Environmental and social safeguards in Brasil and ways forward for BRICS NBD
As the BRICS holds its annual meeting in Shanghai, Coalition Member Conectas Human Rights published an assessment of the growing trend within NDB and other development banks of relying on domestic laws and regulatory systems in lieu of institutional safeguard policies. The report features: A brief history of the building of a "consensus" around the use of country systems; A comparative analysis of the experience of seven multilateral and national development institutions with country systems...
Report: Attacks on female rights activists in Central America and Mexico
MesoAmerica Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defensoras), a coalition of seven organizations published a report last week on the state of violence faced by female rights defenders in Central America and Mexico. They report 2,197 attacks in 2015-2016 alone, with more than 50% of these aggression being done at the hand of the police. This report also finds that land and environment defenders were subject to the greatest number of assaults, and that 10% of attackers were linked to...
Report: Forced labor in Uzbekistan is still rampant
New research by the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights (UGF) shows that forced labor is still rampant in Uzbekistan's cotton sector, including within World Bank project areas. Coalition member Human Rights Watch is calling on World Bank President Jim Kim to press for systemic changes to end forced labor in the sector. Read more here https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/05/25/new-research-shows-forced-labor-still-rampant-uzbekistan.
Press Release: CSOs Urge AfDB to Promote the Interests of Ordinary Africans over Mega Investors at its Annual Meetings
For Immediate Release [Download Release] 23 May 2018 Busan, South Korea. As the African Development Bank (AfDB) meets in Busan, South Korea from May 21-25 to discuss Industrialising Africa, Civil society Organisations (CSOs) from across the continent organizing around the Bank’s CSO Forum, red flagged the Bank’s steer towards mega investments without a clear action plan for human centred inclusive development. Civil Society Groups issued a collective statement urging the Bank to put people at...
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The CRE is a system to facilitate collaborations and co-develop strategies with and among communities, who are defending their rights in the context of international investments and development projects.
DEFENDERS IN DEVELOPMENT
A global campaign to prevent and address risks that human rights defenders face when raising their voices about projects funded by development banks.
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Together with our members and allies, we work at the national and regional level to strengthen capacity, coordination, and advocacy around development finance and human rights.
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If you are in #Tbilisi, don't miss this beautiful art exhibition organised by @forum_adb showcasing some of the stories of communities across #Asia impacted by @ADB_HQ projects
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🌍 Join us for an insightful session on protecting people and the planet!
🌿 Forum is shedding light on CSO reflections regarding the @ADB_HQ Draft ESF and proposed changes in safeguards policy.
We'll discuss recommendations to safeguard project-affected individuals and…
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🌊 Explore a preview of our exhibition exposing the link between environmental degradation, social injustice, and human rights violations caused by @ADB_HQ projects.
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The Lower Sesan 2 Dam is being partly funded by ABBank, a financial intermediary (FI) client of the @IFC_org. Financial intermediaries represent the nexus between development finance and commercial banking.
Read about the Lower Sesan 2 Dam Project here: http://bit.ly/IFC_LowerSesan2
