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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!
New Story: Refugees of Development
In 1999 residents of Hade, Kosovo were forced from their homes by Serbian commandos.They were able to return some time later and have been working tirelessly since then to rebuild their village and return to normal life. Now, they are being threatened to leave again, but this time the threat is coming from a World Bank-supported coal power plant project headed by their government. Read the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism report on this story here.
World Bank’s Business-Lending Arm Backed Palm Oil Producer Amid Deadly Land War
This article by Sasha Chavkin details a plantation project financed by the International Finance Corporation mired in violent land conflict and exposes the dangerous gaps in the IFC's risk assessment and management systems when it comes to human rights. Read the article here
Civil society groups to World Bank: Ensure meaningful consultation on new policies
Civil society groups around the globe call on the World Bank to hold robust in-country consultations on its proposed new safeguard policies. Read the letter here.
Letter from NGO Forum on ADB on AIIB Safeguard Standards
24 April 2015 MR. JIN LIQUN Secretary – General Multilateral Interim Secretariat Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Re: Letter of Introduction from NGO Forum on ADB on AIIB Safeguard Standards Dear Mr. Jin Liqun: We are writing to you on behalf of a network of 250 civil society organizations, based in Manila, with representatives from 20 countries in Asia to express our concern on the need for robust safeguard policies of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Consequently,...
NGO Forum Calls on AIIB to Have Robust Safeguard Standards
For Immediate Release May 1, 2015 With 57 nations already on board the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as prospective founders, a 250-member strong civil society network made an appeal to the newly-formed bank to adopt robust safeguards in its principles, policies and operations. NGO Forum on ADB, in a formal letter to the AIIB, underscored the need for the bank to formulate and implement the highest standard of safeguards in view of the limits to the planet’s growth and the...
World Bank Driving Hazardous Development
International Coalition Warns: World Bank Driving Hazardous Development WHAT: Demonstration - Civil society groups encircle the World Bank in "Caution" tape, demanding strong human rights safeguards WHEN: Friday April 17, 10:00 - 11:30am WHERE: Edward R Murrow Park, in front of the World Bank, H St and 18th St NW Washington D.C. - As finance ministers from across the globe gather in Washington DC for the spring meetings of the World Bank April 17-19, human rights...
BHRC Submits Proposals to World Bank
March 30, 2015- The Bank on Human Rights Coalition issued the following submission to the staff and Directors of the World Bank as part of the Bank's ongoing safeguards review: Key Human Rights Concerns and Recommendations regarding the World Bank's Proposed Social and Environmental Safeguards Framework The submission lays out critical gaps in the proposed safeguards draft, and proposes text to address these gaps and to ensure that Bank-financed activities serve the development needs and...
African Human Rights Body Warns World Bank on Its Proposals
**PRESS RELEASE - For Immediate Release** African human rights body warns the World Bank on proposals to reverse decades of advancement in protection of indigenous peoples’ rights LONDON, 12 March 2015: In February 2015, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights met in Banjul, The Gambia, for its 17th Extra-Ordinary Session, to deal with critical matters pending since the cancellation and delay of previous sessions due to the spread of Ebola during 2014. One critical matter in front...
UN Forum on Indigenous Issues Raises Concerns on Draft World Bank Safeguards
In a letter addressed to World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues notes that "important aspects of the Environmental and Social Policy in general and the associated Environmental and Social Standard on indigenous peoples in particular fall short of protections provided by current safeguard standards and already agreed upon human rights standards, including those contained int he UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples." Read the...
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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.
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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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