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...
View ArticleHow the BRICS Can Run a Rights-Respecting Bank
Can the emerging economic powerhouses of the so-called BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – underwrite development in a way that doesn’t stamp on the rights of people who are...
View ArticleStatement to World Bank Directors
World Bank Safeguard Draft Rolls-Back Protections for People and the Environment Key Human Rights Concerns The World Bank has repeatedly committed to producing a new safeguard framework that results in...
View ArticleCarta a los Directores del Banco Mundial
Propone Retroceso en las Protecciones para las Comunidades y el Ambiente Propuesta de Salvaguardas del Banco Mundial Problemas Claves de Derechos Humanos El Banco Mundial reiteradamente se ha...
View ArticlePress Release
For Immediate Release World Bank: Reject Plan to Roll Back Safeguards Plan Risks Harm to Communities Affected by Development (Washington, DC, July 28, 2014) – A leaked draft of the World Bank’s...
View ArticleWorld Bank rolling back safeguards
The following is an excerpt from an article published in the Hindu on July 30th, 2014. World Bank rolling back safeguards: Leaked report By Narayan Lakshman The World Bank may be on the verge of...
View ArticleWorld Bank denies safeguards compromised
By Narayan Lakshman The World Bank hit back at a wide coalition of NGOs on Wednesday saying that it was in fact broadening environmental and community safeguards. Fending off allegations that it was...
View ArticleBad Example
A statement from Bank on Human Rights Coalition member, Conectas Direitos Humanos. New World Bank Framework Rolls Back Human Rights Protections The World Bank is poised to ease its requirements and...
View ArticleMau exemplo
Novos parâmetros do Banco Mundial reduzem proteção aos direitos humanos O Banco Mundial, referência na aplicação de salvaguardas socioambientais e de direitos humanos no financiamento de projetos de...
View ArticleReport on Forced Evictions in Lagos
Amnesty International released a report today on forced evictions in the Badia East community of Lagos, Nigeria. In February 2013, the Lagos state government, with the support of heavily armed police,...
View ArticleNew Study Released on BNDES
Conectas today published a detailed study on the rules and standards of transparency, accountability to society and socio-environmental impact assessment mechanisms of the Brazilian Development Bank...
View ArticleAmnesty Statement on Inspection Panel
Statement and briefing issued by Amnesty International on Inspection Panel’s Pilot Approach to Early Solutions and its application in Badia East, Lagos, Nigeria Published on September 2nd, 2014. World...
View ArticleWorld Bank Accuses itself of Failing to Protect Kenya Forest Dwellers
From the Guardian, published on Monday 29 September 2014 09.36 EDT. World Bank accuses itself of failing to protect Kenya forest dwellers Leaked document says World Bank violated its own safeguards in...
View ArticleWorld 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleUN 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...
View ArticlePress Release: World Bank Safeguards from Persons Affected by Senegal Coal Plant
Dimanche, le 16 novembre 2014 COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE BANQUE MONDIALE- REVISION DES SAUVEGARDES ENVIRONNEMENTALES ET SOCIALES « DECLARATION DES PERSONNES AFFECTEES PAR LA CENTRALE A CHARBON DE...
View ArticleStatement 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...
View ArticleGlobal 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...
View ArticleHuman 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...
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