Photo credit: Atossa Soltani/ Amazon Watch/ Spectral Q Mayalú Txucarramãe and Patricia Gualinga engaged an audience of civil society members, including BIC, in their discussion on Wednesday of women’s role in the struggles of indigenous communities to protect their lands, their rights, and their way of life from destructive infrastructure and extractive projects in the …
About two months after International Development Association (IDA) deputies met in Managua, Nicaragua, the World Bank published the summary of decisions and the general course of discussions. The Bank’s page on the event, including the chairperson’s summary can be found here. One of our partners, Bretton Woods Project, published a critique in response to the …
In order to include the views and voices of children in the World Bank safeguards review, BIC is coordinating youth consultations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. On September 3rd and 4th, BIC co-organized a consultation with Democracy School in Sana’a, Yemen. Read excerpts from Democracy School’s press release describing the event …
Image: A visually impaired respondent raises concerns during FGD at pawel parish in Patiko Sub County, Gulu district, Uganda The Disability and World Bank Safeguards Campaign, a partnership between the Bank Information Center and the Lebanese Physical Handicapped Union, submitted revised World Bank Environmental Assessment Policy (OP 4.01), Indigenous Peoples Policy (OP 4.10), and Involuntary Resettlement …
Association for Human Rights in Central Asia, Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan “Ezgulik” and Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights (UGF) filed a formal complaint to the World Bank Inspection Panel. These organizations, representing Uzbek citizens who have suffered under the state-organized system of forced labour cotton production, requested an investigation of the World Bank’s Rural …
Alexia Latortue will serve at the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of International Development and Debt Policy. Latortue was a former senior spokesperson on microfinance for the World Bank. For a period of time, she served as the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP). She replaces Scott Morris.