The Society formed by GTLI y Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales awaiting an environmental license and Petroandina has entered the phase of seismic studies.
Will the new crisis in the Nile affect the implementation of the West Delta project? Dr. Rushdy Said, an Egyptian geologist, says that Egypt will suffer from water problems this summer. This is the first summer after the building of the new dam in Sudan. Said also doesn’t know anything about how the Egyptian government …
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 …
Joint Israeli-Jordanian-Palestinian venture to see 112-mile pipeline built between Read Sea, Dead Sea. Project meant to explore desalination possibilities, raising Dead Sea declining water levels. Minister Shalom: Project staple of financial peace
The Egyptian government’s engagement in the West Delta project raises many questions regarding the repayment of the World Bank’s loan
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.
State-owned oil company Petroperu said Sunday protests organized by Indians in Peru’s Amazon region were causing fuel shortages in several jungle cities.
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 …