Stories and advocacy

Stop reprisals against environmental defender Sukhgerel Dugersuren
Over 130 civil society organizations have signed a joint letter to urge the authorities in Mongolia to stop reprisals against human rights ...

CSOs response to the World Bank consultation on the proposal for a Financial Intermediary Fund for Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response
Thirty-three organisations from around the world have signed a statement arguing that the World Bank has not learnt crucial lessons from the ...

Civil society groups demand more engagement on the sidelines of the AfDB Annual Meetings
“Stop funding projects exacerbating climate change and human violations”
Civil society groups demand more engagement on the sidelines of the ...

Statement: CSOs speak out for transparency, participation and inclusion of traditional communities in the Leticia Pact
In 2019, the governments of seven countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname and Peru) signed the Leticia Pact, with the ...

COVID-19: You can’t have a recovery using the same bad medicine
We are beginning 2022 with the world reeling under rising Omicron cases. It has been two years since the World Health Organization declared ...

Missing receipts: what happened to the billions of dollars provided by international finance institutions for the COVID-19 response?
PRESS RELEASE
31 January, 2022 - International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have designated billions of dollars to respond to the pandemic and ...

#Dev4Africa: a new campaign to demand AfDB more transparency and respect human rights
#Dev4Africa is a campaign launched by grassroots groups, Indigenous Peoples, civil society organizations, communities, workers, women, and other ...

The world’s food systems are in crisis, and big agribusiness is at its heart
In 2017, the people of Zagora, Morocco, took to the streets in what became known as the ‘thirst revolution’. They were demanding safe ...

Two decades of relentless resistance
This blog was written by Saswati Swetlena and Sreedhar Ramamurthi, who work for our member organization Environics Trust (India).
The “Posco ...
More than 70 CSOs raise their concerns about the review process of AfDB’s Integrated Safeguard System
On November 19, more than 70 civil society organizations from across the African continent and international supporters addressed a letter to ...
Recommendations to strengthen IDB Group’s engagement with Civil Society and Project Affected Communities
On November 8, 2021, 30 civil society organizations - including many Coalition members - addressed a letter to the Inter-American Development ...

Public Development Banks Fail to Meet Commitments to Human Rights & Community-led Development
By Siddharth Akali
October 16, 2021 - If you had two trillion dollars, how would you spend it? Will you use it to make the world a better ...
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