Stories and advocacy

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 ...

Development banks should end all public finance for industrial agriculture
On October 19-20, over 500 Public Development Banks (PDBs) will be invited to gather at the second edition of the Finance in Common (FIC) ...

Development banks have no business financing agribusiness
On October 18, ahead of the second edition of the Finance in Common (FIC) summit, over 280 civil society organizations and grassroots groups - ...

Open letter to African Development Bank and Nordic Development Fund: Address reprisals against Paten Clan
On September 9, a group of organizations that are members of the Coalition for Human Rights in Development and other allies sent an open letter ...
A COVID-19 Loan for COVID-Denying Turkmenistan
The World Bank approved a COVID-19 loan for Turkmenistan, despite journalists reporting on the pandemic there being thrown in jail.
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