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The Coalition has over 100 members based in around 50 countries.
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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 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...
Según el Grupo de Trabajo de ONU sobre Empresas y DDHH, Brasil debe reforzar la protección de los derechos humanos
El 17 de junio pasado, el Grupo de Trabajo de la ONU sobre Derechos Humanos, Empresas Transnacionales y otras Empresas presentó su informe sobre el país ante el Consejo de Derechos Humanos en Ginebra. Si bien el informe afirma que el país sudamericano cuenta con la legislación e instituciones sólidas para proteger a los trabajadores de violaciones de las garantías básicas, urge a las autoridades brasileñas a hacer uso de esos avances para defender mejor esos derechos en la práctica. El informe...
Financial Crisis at Inter-American Commission
Coalition member ESCR-Net is calling on leaders of OAS member states to address the financial crisis currently hindering the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ ability to operate as a key regional human rights mechanism. The crisis has already caused the IACHR to suspend its 159th and 160th sessions and will result in drastic staff cuts by July. Read the press release and letter here.
Honduran Social Movements Urge World Bank to Stop Fueling Human Rights Violations
Honduran social movements and indigenous peoples organizations this week called on the World Bank to in light of persistent attacks on human rights defenders, suspend financing in Honduras "until there are minimally just and realistic conditions for indigenous and small farming communities to defend their rights and, above all, that these ancient peoples can freely decide about their territories." In a letter to World Bank President, Jim Kim, on May 27, the Civic Council of Popular and...
AIDESEP insists IDB land titling programme must be suspended
Peruvian indigenous peoples association AIDESEP federation is calling on the Inter-American Development Bank to suspend land titling program which threatens to undermine indigenous land rights. The group has a complaint pending with the IDB's independent accountability mechanism. Read the update from Coalition member Forest Peoples Programme here.
Civil Society Declaration at the 51st African Development Bank Annual Meetings
African civil society groups, including Coalition member Lumière Synergie pour le Développement, called on the African Development Bank this week to increase its accountability and engagement with civil society and to embrace pro-poor investment strategies that support public sector service delivery, transparency in natural resource governance, and inclusive, equitable and sustainable development. The statement, released in conjunction with the 51st Annual Meetings of the AfDB, addresses...
UN Indigenous Peoples Experts Challenge World Bank
May 20, 2016 - The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and other top UN indigenous peoples experts sent a letter Friday to World Bank President Jim Kim and the Bank's executive directors, challenging a proposal that would weaken protections for indigenous peoples. This critical issue -- whether the Bank will require clients to obtain the free, prior, informed consent (FPIC) of indigenous peoples before implementing development projects that impact indigenous peoples'...
What is new about the BRICS-led New Development Bank?
From the beginning, the idea of a BRICS-led development bank was seen to be a direct challenge to existing development banks, notably the Western-dominated World Bank and IMF. But what exactly is new about the New Development Bank? Supriya Roychoudhury and Karin Costa Vazquez explains it here.
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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.
REGIONAL WORK
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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