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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!
World Bank backing coal power in Europe
The Guardian recently reported on the World Bank's enthusiasm in supporting the Kosovo e re (New Kosovo) coal power plant. The $200 billion project is expected to have a capacity of 600 MW, and would be powered by lignite which is the dirtiest form of coal. This is despite the Bank's pronouncement to halt financing coal projects except in rare circumstances. Civil society groups in Kosovo, led by the Kosovo Civil Society Consortium for Sustainable Development (KOSID) have expressed opposition...
African groups call on World Bank to strengthen protections
Thirty-four African human rights and environmental groups sent a letter to the World Bank this week expressing concerns with a weakening of the Bank's social and environmental policy framework. The statement reiterates the inputs of African civil society groups who throughout the multi-year “Safeguards Review” have called for robust protections to prevent harm to communities and the environment in the context of development activities. The groups expressed disappointment that those inputs do...
Activism in Macedonia: ‘Intimidation is just the tip of the iceberg’
Environmental activists and civil society groups in Macedonia working to defend their rights in the face of harmful development projects financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and other development banks, are increasingly threatened and harassed. In an article in the Guardian, CEE Bankwatch's Ana Colovic tells about her experience. "Over the years, I’ve taken on numerous development projects and the institutions that finance them, to prevent the literal bulldozing of...
Uzbekistan: Forced Labor Linked to World Bank Corporate Loan
Coalition member Human Rights Watch reports that three human rights defenders have lodged a formal complaint against the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) regarding forced labor in the Uzbek cotton industry. The complaint demands an investigation of forced labor linked to Indorama Kokand Textile, a cotton processing company and recent recipient of a $40 million loan from the IFC. This loan is seen to support the coercive cotton production industry controlled by the Uzbek...
Nueva publicación acerca de los problemas socio-ambientales existentes en la cuenca del Río Tapajós
International Rivers, miembro de la Coalición, junto con la Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará publicaron recientemente un libro acerca de los problemas socio-ambientales existentes en la cuenca del Río Tapajós, en Brasil. La misma contiene una serie de artículos que abordan diferentes temáticas socio-ambientales vinculadas al Río Tapajós, tales como el financiamiento y contrucción de represesas hidroeléctricas, sus impactos en materia social y ambiental, o la resistenciade las poblaciones...
World Bank Should Champion Human Rights
The New York Times editorial board today called on the World Bank to "champion human rights" through its new safeguards policy framework presently under consideration by the Bank's board of directors. The Times cited that despite the fact that the institution's own research acknowledges the importance of human rights for development effectiveness, the World Bank "has been far too reluctant to make adherence to human rights a core principle by which it evaluates projects intended to reduce...
AIIB approved $509 million for four projects
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will be holding its 1st Annual Meeting on June 25 – 26, 2016 in Beijing, China. Prior to the meeting, the Bank approved four projects amounting to $509 million. These projects include co – financing with the World Bank on a slum redevelopment in Indonesia, an ADB highway in Pakistan and an EBRD road connecting Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The AIIB also approved an energy grid project in Bangladesh that it will finance on its own. Read more here.
World Bank Allows Tanzania To Sidestep Rule Protecting Indigenous Groups
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists recently reported that the World Bank has chosen to waive their policy protections for indigenous peoples in a Tanzania investment project, despite serious impacts on indigenous peoples in the project area. The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCT) project, aimed at attracting foreign investment in commercial agriculture, has already caused the eviction of indigenous pastoralists from lands slated for cultivation...
Al-Haq calls on World Bank to strengthen protection in conflict-affected areas
On June 16th, the Palestinian human rights organization, Al-Haq, urged the World Bank to explicitly address the need for human rights safeguards for investments in conflict-affected areas during the Bank’s ongoing safeguard policy reform process. The Bank has announced plans to increase investments in fragile and conflict-affected States. Al-Haq is calling on the World Bank to include language in its new policies that would ensure that Bank investments do not cause or contribute to human...
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