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The Coalition has over 100 members based in around 50 countries.
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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 Call for Human Rights in the BRICS Bank
Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, an economic and political grouping known as the BRICS, arrived in Fortaleza, Brazil this week for the 6th BRICS Summit. A focal point of the two-day meeting was the launch of the BRICS New Development Bank to rival the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and other pre-eminent international financial institutions. Civil society organisations from BRICS countries, including Bank on Human Rights Coalition member Conectas Direitos...
Bank on Human Rights: Bank for the Poor
Throughout my career as an activist, I have participated in the birth of quite a number of good initiatives and programs that were either hatched by my organization or which I have partnered and colluded in shaping, nationally, regionally and globally. However, when Jessica Evans of Human Rights Watch tapped my shoulder on the need to create a global network that would promote and protect human rights in development finance, little did I know that one of the most exciting, nerve racking and,...
Letter to World Bank
As the World Bank prepares to release a first draft of its new safeguard policies, Bank on Human Rights members sent a letter to Bank President Jim Kim, calling for a policy framework that ensures that development projects respect communities' human rights. Letter to World Bank Carta al Banco Mundial Lettre a Banque mondiale
Press release: New report exposes how development finance institutions failed to protect those who reported on or criticized COVID-19 responses
PRESS RELEASE Unhealthy Silence: new report exposes how development finance institutions failed to protect those who reported on or criticized COVID-19 responses July 27, 2021 - Since the beginning of the pandemic, doctors, nurses, journalists and other frontline workers have courageously criticized or scrutinized the inadequate responses to COVID-19 supported by governments, public development banks and other actors. For doing so, many of them have been threatened, attacked or arrested. The...
The Community Resource Exchange: a new path to build collective power
The pandemic has confirmed to us the importance of building and nurturing connections. When development finance institutions, governments, corporations and other elites fail us, we have to come together under the leadership of indigenous peoples, front line communities, social movements and grassroots groups. We have to join forces to resist, to confront power imbalance and structural discrimination, to protect human and environmental rights, and to ensure development can be truly...
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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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If you are in #Tbilisi, don't miss this beautiful art exhibition organised by @forum_adb showcasing some of the stories of communities across #Asia impacted by @ADB_HQ projects
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🌍 Join us for an insightful session on protecting people and the planet!
🌿 Forum is shedding light on CSO reflections regarding the @ADB_HQ Draft ESF and proposed changes in safeguards policy.
We'll discuss recommendations to safeguard project-affected individuals and…
🎨✨ In TBILISI now!
🌊 Explore a preview of our exhibition exposing the link between environmental degradation, social injustice, and human rights violations caused by @ADB_HQ projects.
With @ceebankwatch, @RightsinDevt, Green Alternative ✊🏽
Can't make it? No worries, catch…
The Lower Sesan 2 Dam is being partly funded by ABBank, a financial intermediary (FI) client of the @IFC_org. Financial intermediaries represent the nexus between development finance and commercial banking.
Read about the Lower Sesan 2 Dam Project here: http://bit.ly/IFC_LowerSesan2
