©2013 E&E Publishing, LLC, Republished with permission Obama admin doubles down on lignite coal plant in Kosovo (Monday, October 21, 2013) Lisa Friedman, E&E reporter The United States will continue to support $58 million in World Bank financing for a lignite coal plant in Kosovo despite President Obama’s pledge to stop funding for overseas coal, according to …
In the context of World Food Day, established by the United Nations and celebrated on October 16th each year, the Mexican Network of Rural Forestry Organizations (Red MOCAF in Spanish) has published a news release on the important role of forests in the process of food production. In this publication, Gustavo Sánchez Valle, president of …
Representatives of civil society, indigenous communities, government and the press gathered in San Pedro Sula, Honduras from Sept. 23 to Sept. 25 for the “First International Workshop on Social and Environmental Safeguards in Indigenous Territories and Forest Communities of Mesoamerica,” an initiative of the Bank Information Center, and for the Community Forestry Pre-Congress, organized by …
BIC, behind the efforts of Senior Policy Advisor Vince McElhinny, now has an informational brief on lending trends with the World Bank available. The document, replete with informational figures and facts, forecasts a further decline in safeguard coverage and points to signs of a return to to higher risk/reward lending. With these lending policies and …
Between August 14 and October 5 2013 the Bank Information Center held a series of seven children’s consultations in six countries on the World Bank safeguards. The countries in which consultations have been carried out include: Peru, Yemen, India, Cambodia and Uganda. The World Bank is currently reviewing its social and environmental policy standards, and is …
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 …