Human Rights Watch released a 59-page report on Monday, concluding that the World Bank “has closed its eyes to the risk to the human rights of the very people it seeks to benefit. “The World Bank pays tens of billions of dollars every year to support development efforts around the world,” said Jessica Evans, senior advocate …
Photograph of Oyu Tolgoi mining complex courtesy of Oyu Tolgoi Watch. Press release originally published by CEE Bankwatch. Ulaanbaatar, 04 July 2013 A group of Mongolian herders submitted today an official complaint to the Project Complaints Mechanism of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), hoping to initiate a process of evaluation of the …
The Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests (Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques), an umbrella organization of indigenous and community forest organizations, recently published an announcement highlighting the failure of the REDD-CCAD/GIZ Program to invite indigenous authorities to a regional conference on forest governance. The event, held in Panama on July 9, 2013, is the second …
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility’s Carbon Fund held back-to-back meetings of the Working Group on the Methodological Framework (MF), and the Carbon Fund in Paris, June 20-24, 2013. Despite plans to finalize a draft of the MF to circulate for public comment by the end of the CF7, the failure to meet this goal signifies …
Mexican civil society and indigenous representatives convened on June 24th and 25th in Mexico City for a workshop entitled “Towards the Construction and Articulation of Knowledge in the Process of Shaping REDD+”. With the goal of creating a new space for dialogue and shared learning around REDD, regional representatives from the Yucatan Peninsula, Central Mexico, and Northern …