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 …
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 …
Alexia Latortue will serve at the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of International Development and Debt Policy. Latortue was a former senior spokesperson on microfinance for the World Bank. For a period of time, she served as the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP). She replaces Scott Morris.
On August 2, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) opened the first phase of public consultations on its Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (ICIM), aiming to revise and update the ICIM policy that has been in effect since September 2010. The ICIM (commonly known by its Spanish acronym, MICI) is an IDB policy that establishes an independent body …
In July 2013, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Forest (AIDESEP) and the Federation of Native Communities of the Madre Dios River and its Tributaries (FENAMAD) recorded a video of members of the indigenous community “Mashco Piro,” an indigenous group that lives in voluntary isolation in Peru. The video constitutes definitive proof …
The Community Forestry Pre-Congress, an initiative by the Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests, will take place on September 24th and 25th in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. BIC and more than twenty other organizations from eight different countries will participate in the Community Forestry Pre-Congress: “Community Forestry as the Basis of Governance and the Starting …
Soumya Dutta outside the World Bank headquarters, August 2013 BIC highlights the work of Soumya Dutta in the campaign against Tata Mundra. Soumya Dutta is the National Convener of the Indian people’s science group Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha and the Convener of the Climate and Energy Group in the Beyond Copenhagen collective in India, a network …
Human Rights Watch released a 59-page report on Monday, concluding that the World Bank “has closed its eyes to the risk to the human rights of the very people it seeks to benefit. “The World Bank pays tens of billions of dollars every year to support development efforts around the world,” said Jessica Evans, senior advocate …