From January 28 to February 1, 2013, BIC and DAR, a Peruvian nonprofit, co-organized a Training Seminar on the Implementation of Social and Environmental Safeguards held in Washington, DC. Fourteen colleagues from eight countries in Central and South America (Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama) participated in the seminar. The seminar was designed as a three-day …
BIC highlights the work of Yahya Saleh Mohsen of the Yemen Observatory for Human Rights. Yahya played an instrumental role in bringing a case to the World Bank Inspection Panel involving the Bank’s translation policies in Yemen and beyond.
Read a BIC opinion piece from the FP blog, The Argument, explaining why the World Bank must reconsider its current policies on translation and information disclosure in order to promote substantive civil society engagement. Source By: Rebecca Harris In January 2008, community groups in Yemen wrote to their local World Bank office, asking for an …
The meeting took place during the Inspection Panel’s trip to Sana’a to determine the eligibility of a complaint about Yemeni civil society’s inability to access a translation of a key Bank document.
1.5 years after the Yemen Observatory for Human Rights first requested a translation of the World Bank’s 2008 Development Policy Loan for Yemen, the Bank has finally made this translation available.
Yemeni group files complaint with the World Bank’s Inspection Panel and now change might already be in the air? It has only been slightly over a month since the Yemen Observatory for Human Rights (YOHR) submitted their official complaint to the World Bank’s Inspection Panel but we are already seeing progress with the case. YOHR’s …
Yemeni civil society group take their complaint regarding the World Bank’s refusal to translate a key program document, to the Inspection Panel