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The Coalition has over 100 members based in around 50 countries.
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STORIES & UPDATES
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!
New Oxfam Report: “An Economy for the 99%”
A new report by Coalition member Oxfam shows that the distribution of global wealth is far more unequal than previously thought. Eight men control the same amount of money as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world’s population. Inequality is on the rise and history shows that growth of the top 1% does not translate into development for all. Oxfam calls for governments and business leaders to tackle the false paradigm of neoliberalism and address the extreme wealth gap...
Nueva publicación sobre protección de defensores de derechos humanos ambientales
El pasado mes de diciembre de 2016, el Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental A.C. (CEMDA), con la colaboración de diferentes investigadores y organizaciones de la sociedad civil (entre ellas la del miembro de la Coalición, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales-DAR), publicaron el documento “Prácticas emergentes de los Estados en materia de protección a personas defensoras del medio ambiente en América Latina y el Caribe”. Este estudio es una primera aproximación para describir las prácticas...
Time for Development Financiers to #Standup4HumanRights
Global groups call for action to protect human rights in development Ahead of Human Rights Day, December 10th, the Coalition for Human Rights in Development joins with over 50 civil society groups around the world to call on financial institutions, governments and businesses to stand up for human rights in development processes. While respect for human rights is essential for development, too often investments in the name of development do not meet the needs or respect the human rights of poor...
Groups call on OPIC to strengthen human rights due diligence
This month, 18 human rights and environmental organizations called on the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the United States' development finance institution, to strengthen its human rights due diligence. OPIC is presently revising its social and environmental policy framework. The review follows investigations by OPIC's own Office of Accountability which revealed that OPIC's risk assessments were not adequately capturing human rights risks. The Office of Accountability...
Coalition Urges Dutch Development Bank to Strengthen Human Rights Protections
The Coalition for Human Rights in Development this week called on the Dutch Development Bank FMO to strengthen its commitment to human rights and to enact strong due diligence requirements to ensure that human rights are respected within FMO-financed activities. FMO is presently revising its Sustainability Policy framework, including its Human Rights Position Statement. The institution came under global scrutiny earlier this year following the assassination of Berta Cáceres, an indigenous...
Assam workers demand action from World Bank and Tata
An investigation on Tata's tea plantations in Assam, India vindicates the claims of Indian NGOs documenting the failure of the World Bank and Tata to uphold the fundamental rights of workers and their families. The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) which holds the World Bank's private sector arm, the IFC - International Finance Corporation accountable, found in its investigation that the Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited(APPL) fell short on several parameters related to the welfare of...
UN Special Rapporteur released a new report on the state of environmental HRDs
This week Michel Forst, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, issued a shocking new report on environmental human rights defenders: "They spoke truth to power and were murdered in cold blood". The report details the growing attacks on individuals and communities fighting for their human rights and defending their environments. It highlights the increased number of reprisals against those who raise concerns around development projects, and it identifies...
World Bank covers up human rights abuses in Nepal
In a recent blog titled "World Bank Covers Up Human Rights Abuses in Nepal: Silencing Community Voices", the Lawyers’ Association for Human Rights of Nepalese Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP) together with Coalition member Accountability Counsel calls out the World Bank for ignoring community voices and covering up human rights abuses to push forward their "development" projects in Nepal. The authors stress the Bank's responsibility to help facilitate a dialogue with a view to resolving the...
Cambodia: No Debt Relief to Railway Families
An article in Cambodia Daily details how the Asian Development Bank (ADB) continues to fall short in restoring the living standards of 1,000 families evicted as a result of a railway rehabilitation project. ADB’s independent accountability mechanism, the Compliance Review Panel (CRP), reports that the Bank is has made some progress on the recommendations from a compliance review. However, it is still not meeting five out of the six main recommendations, which include critical debt relief to...
OUR COLLECTIVE WORK
COMMUNITY RESOURCE EXCHANGE
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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Kichwa leader, Marisol García, is demanding that Total Energies be held responsible for buying carbon credits from a project that displaced her community from their territory. Stay tuned to @ForestPeoplesP for news from her trip to Paris.
🔥On May 13, 2024, Mr. Fred Balikenda & his family of 12 including a baby & several children were evicted from their home by @GovUganda for @TotalEnergiesUG's Tilenga oil project. The family's house was demolished. Read the statement on their eviction: https://www.afiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Statement-on-Mr.-Fred-Balikendas-eviction-17-May-2024.pdf
🌍 We're urging the @ADB_HQ to go back to the drawing board! 🖌️ It's time for an overhaul of the proposed ESF, updating the outdated 2009 Safeguards Policy.
READ: https://www.forum-adb.org/post/forumesfsubmission
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