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Posted June 7, 2021 by Hannah Storey

IDB Invest and IFC’s new guidance on reprisals: a welcome step, but much more is needed

In March 2020, IDB Invest and IFC’s released a new guidance which lays out 10 steps companies should take to screen, prevent and respond to reprisals. In this blog, Hannah Storey analyses the document and explains why, although this is a welcome and important step, much more is needed.

Posted February 5, 2018 by webmaster@rightsindevelopment.org

Strategizing for a different development in Africa

In November, over 40 representatives of human rights and environmental organizations across the continent came together in Pretoria, South Africa to examine the contours of development finance and investment in Africa today and to strategize how to advance a different type of development – one

Posted February 14, 2017 by Carmina Obanil

World Bank Geothermal Project Continues to Disregard Indigenous Rights

On February 16, the World Bank Board is scheduled to review a proposed Action Plan to remedy harm caused to four Maasai villages which were resettled in 2014 to make way for the Olkaria IV geothermal development in Kenya’s Rift Valley, a project financed by the World Bank, the European Investment Ban