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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!
Event in Lima: Human Rights Due Diligence & Development Finance
Strengthening Social and Environmental Assessment with Human Rights Due Diligence Wednesday, October 7, 2015 10:00–11:00 a.m. Alternative Event, Hotel Bolívar Jirón de La Unión 958, in front of Plaza San Martín, Centro de Lima The human rights implications of development activities are often overlooked due to the fact that standard development planning and assessment tools are not designed to capture human rights risks and impacts. This presentation will showcase a new methodology for...
UN Expert: “the World Bank is a human rights-free zone”
In a report to the UN General Assembly, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, characterizes the World Bank as a "human rights-free zone" and criticizes the institution's current approach to human rights as "incoherent, counterproductive and unsustainable". The report calls on the Bank to adopt a new approach to human rights, including mechanisms to support governments in incoporating human rights into development, and a due diligence policy to...
We Need Your Input for a New Human Rights Analysis Tool!
The Coalition is creating a Risk and Opportunities Analysis Tool to identify human rights risks and opportunities associated with development projects. And we want your input! The draft set of Standards and Indicator Questions that will drive the tool are now available for comment. Find out more here.
World Bank Fails To Stop Attacks, Arrests Of Villagers Protesting Big Projects
Huffington Post: An investigation found that since 2004, projects financed by the World Bank have displaced an estimated 3.4 million people. When the populations affected by these development projects protest, they are often subject to arrest, violence, and intimidation. While the World Bank does not have legal authority to directly protect these protestors against government reprisals, it can wield its clout in other ways. However, in the past decade, the Bank has failed to take aggressive...
Groups Criticize AIIB’s Opaque Consultation Process
Civil society groups around the world raise concerns that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is needlessly fast-tracking the development of its safeguard policy, prohibiting meaningful consultation. A strong policy is critical for ensuring communities and the environment aren't harmed by AIIB investments. Groups have urged the AIIB to be inclusive and transparent in developing these standards, calling the current consultation process “opaque and unrealistic.” Read more here.
Questioning Development Finance
Right now, your government is likely making important decisions related to development finance. Whether it’s the establishment of new institutions like the BRICS New Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, or policy developments like the revision of the World Bank's Safeguards or priorities for your national development bank, governments are making decisions that will impact how development activities are designed and implemented, and whether they actually benefit...
Nepali Communities Seek Justice for Violations in World Bank Project
Kathmandu, Nepal, July 14, 2015 – Last week an independent investigation revealed serious abuses in a World Bank-funded transmission line project in central Nepal. The Khimti-Dhalkebar transmission line runs through indigenous and rural communities, who have been raising concerns about the project for over five years. Though the findings validate community concerns, the World Bank has not committed to correcting the damage caused by its failures in this project. Press Release:...
UN Expert Calls for Indigenous Peoples as Partners in Development
On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz delivered a statement on the state of the world’s indigenous rights movement. She stated that “increasing foreign investments coming into many countries further exacerbate the loss of lands and resources of indigenous peoples and serious environmental destruction of their territories.” The Special Rapporteur called on states and multilateral bodies to...
Communities take IFC to court
In 2013, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – funded 4,150 MW coal-fired Tata Mundra power project began operating in the Kutch region of Gujarat, India. Although the stated goal of the project was poverty reduction and development, it instead has had severely detrimental effects on the environment and the communities living in the area. Fish populations have declined significantly and water quality has deteriorated, affecting the health of fishing and farming communities and...
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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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