A publication of the Bank Information Center (BIC)
Welcome to the September 26, 2012 issue of the IF-Eye – the Bank Information Center’s bimonthly synthesis of key developments concerning international financial institutions. Please send suggestions, contributions and subscription requests to: dschwartz@bicusa.org. Thanks for reading!
Announcement from Gender Action:
Civil Society Activists: Gender Action is inviting you to join our new Global Gender IFI Watcher Network, which we launched at this year’s Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) Forum in Istanbul. The Network allows large numbers of activists to collectively hold International Financial Institutions (IFI) investments accountable to prevent negative and ensure positive gender impacts. Already, more than 220 civil society members from over 75 countries have joined the Network. With your participation, we can make the Network an even more powerful force for collaboration, coalition building, and advocacy.
Complaint submitted to World Bank Inspection Panel implicates the World Bank in serious human rights abuses carried out by the Ethiopian government through forced villagization
The World Bank Board of Directors has announced plans to consider a copper and gold mining project in the Mongolian South Gobi desert even though the Bank itself acknowledges that there is not enough water in the region to support the life of the Project.
Madina Burieva, 12, imagines the good things the Rogun dam and its electricity will bring to people in the area Original image by flickr user Asian Development Bank (Creative Commons BY-NC 2.0) In June 2012, the Bureau of Human Rights and Rule of Law, BIC’s NGO Partner in Tajikistan, has accomplished the project of involuntary …
Over the last decade the World Bank has taken a bold lead among international development institutions in championing the anti-corruption cause. The rhetoric of World Bank leaders, starting with President James Wolfensohn in the late 1990s, in support of good governance has been at a high level – in tone, in consistency and in substance.
Results of the CSO self-selection process for observers for Africa, Asia, Latin America and developed countries to the UNREDD Policy Board announced
World Bank proposal to reform Investment Lending Operational Policies threaten to dilute key Safeguard enabling requirements and could severely reduce accountability at the Bank. Together with other recent developments, these reforms to investment lending suggest a systematic dilution of the Bank’s social, environmental, and transparency standards, most of which have been undertaken through non-transparent and non-participatory processes.
The Association for the Struggle for Fishworkers’ Rights calls out their Ombudsman for an assessment report that fails to take their social and environmental concerns into account.