Members Map
The Coalition has over 100 members based in around 50 countries.
Click here to check who our members are and learn more about their work.
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!
A Meeting for Human Rights
The Bank on Human Rights Coalition was launched in April 2014 to support global action to make sure that development finance institutions, such as the World Bank, the African Development Bank and other regional banks, respect, protect, and fulfil human rights. Since then, the Coalition has grown to nearly 50 members, spanning diverse sectors and regions. On February 4, 2015, over 30 activists and representatives from community organisations & civil society from 24 countries will meet in...
An Open Letter from Anuak Ethiopian Refugees to the World Bank President
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank January 30, 2015 Dear Mr. President, We are the Requesters, Anuak refugees and asylum seekers based in Kenya (Dadaab, Kakuma and Nairobi) and South Sudan (Gorom), who submitted a complaint to the World Bank Inspection Panel in September 2012. We have written to you twice before but we have never received a response. This is our final appeal and we pray that this time our voice will be heard. We were forced to flee our homeland in Gambella, Ethiopia...
UN Experts Express Concerns over Proposed Safeguards
28 UN Experts sent a letter to World Bank President Jim Kim, to express their concerns regarding the Bank's proposed new social and environmental safeguards. The letter criticizes the Bank for avoiding meaningful incorporation of human rights protections. Read the letter here.
Human Rights Day Action Alert
In honor of the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Center for International Environmental Law is sending a message to World Bank President Kim, urging the Bank to respect and protect human rights in its lending. Will you join us? Please take a minute to sign and distribute the petition, available here. The full link is: https://takeaction.takepart.com/actions/join-the-global-movement-to-ensure-that-development-respects-human-rights Many thanks for...
Global Climate Talks Open with Push for Human Rights
From Scientific America, published on Monday, 1 December 2014. For all the flack the U.N. climate talks have taken over the past 20 years, one major achievement will be on display as the next round of negotiations open in Peru today. Climate change has been inextricably linked to social justice. The key questions that face the delegates as they meet in Lima are no longer simply about carbon emissions targets and timetables, but also about people and human rights. One mark of that shift is the...
Statement on Obstacles to Participation in World Bank Safeguards Consultations
This letter, signed by 50 organizations, was sent today to World Bank President Jim Kim and Executive Directors detailing lack of notice and restrictive access to participation in ongoing safeguards consultations. Thanks to all who contributed to the letter and signed on. Please help distribute to your networks and utilize in communications with your governments and the Bank. Read the consultation letter here.
UN Poverty Expert Calls Out World Bank
In a recent speech at the World Bank, entitled "Rethinking the World Bank’s Approach to Human Rights," Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, described how the World Bank "stands almost alone...in insisting that human rights are mere matters of politics, rather than an integral part of the international legal order." Alston argues that "the anti-poverty and human rights agendas must complement one another" and "neither the Bank nor any other development actor...
The Annual Meetings: A Week in Review
From October 10–12, 2014 the World Bank and International Monetary Fund held their joint Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C. Scores of activists, community leaders and civil society organisations from across the world participated in meetings, panels and actions to affirm the importance of strong human rights protections for communities who are affected by Bank-financed development projects. Presented below is a snapshot of the week as it unfolded, starting with the Civil Society Policy Forum...
World Bank Annual Press Release
For Immediate Release World Bank Group: Proposed Policy a Setback for Rights Development Cannot Succeed if it Harms Communities (October 10, 2014 Washington, DC) – Draft World Bank policies under consideration at the bank’s meeting on October 10-12, 2014 would dangerously roll back protection for communities affected by bank projects, independent groups said today. Foreign ministers and central bankers are meeting in Washington, DC to discuss key challenges in ending poverty and inequality....
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.
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.
Toolkits & Guides
About Development Finance & the Early Warning System
Calendar
Stay in Touch
;
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
🚨 @CSOLifeline funds are available!
☑️ Advocacy grants for #CSOs pushing back against threats to #civicfreedoms
☑️ Resiliency #grants for CSOs in high-risk environments
☑️ Small, short-term crisis assistance for #humanrights CSOs under threat
Apply! 👉 https://www.icnl.org/our-work/global-programs/lifeline
