The World Bank’s action plan responding to an internal review on the bank’s resettlement practices does not address the serious failings the review found, 85 non-governmental organizations and independent experts from 37 countries said today in a letter to the World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim.
A submission from 20 civil society organizations from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the United States, underscores civil society concerns about the unprecedented dilution of World Bank safeguards for biodiversity, forests and resource-dependent communities.
A group of Nobel Peace Prize winning women (The Nobel Women’s Initiative) sent a scathing letter to World Bank President Kim detailing concerns they have with Safeguards draft.
The World Bank seems eager to provide financial support to the Kosovar government for construction of a new coal-based power plant. But what about the people who are in the path of the expanded power plant and coal mine? Kosovo and the World Bank are trying to avoid responsibility for the impoverishment and suffering that will surely come on the heels of the involuntary resettlement of over 7,000 Kosovars from their homes and communities.
Like previous safeguard consultations, Lima was draped in a sense of secrecy with a total lack of transparency from the get go. The response of civil society groups in Lima to the draft safeguard policies presented by the Bank was very straight-forward, outright rejection.
A new case study on the development of a national safeguard system for REDD+ in Mexico was just published by Bank of Information Center (BIC), the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), and Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA).
Child Rights Organizations express disappointment over poorly managed Tanzania Safeguards consultation.
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) seeks to identify a CSO Representative from Asia for its Participants Committee and Participants Assembly. Due to problems with the previous process conducted in August-October 2014, the Bank Information Center will be re-running the selection process for Asia Pacific Civil Society Observers to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) in …
BIC’s World Bank Safeguards Campaign celebrates the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by working with Disabled Persons Organizations (DPOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) in Lima, Peru to build and enhance their capacity on the World Bank.
BIC recently coordinated a sign-on letter to President Kim in reaction to the draft safeguard policies. Over fifty organizations endorsed the letter that reflected on the updated policies from a child rights perspective.