A network of Indonesian civil society organizations and indigenous peoples groups wrote to the Forest Investment Program (FIP) sub-committee that met in Istanbul early this week, urging members to prioritize legal reforms in the forestry sector. The sub-committee endorsed the Indonesian Plan while the substantive and process flaws remain intact.
U.S. Capital Energy’s Environmental Impact Assessment “consultation” in Sunday Wood, Belize was neither free nor fair. SATIIM, an indigenous organization in the country, has received World Bank grants investing in the management of Sarstoon Temash National Park, the proposed drilling site.
An IDB audit confirms that the Bank approved the loan to co-finance two dams in Pamama despite knowledge that the project fails to meet Bank safeguards. The Pando y Monte Lirio dams will divert 90 percent of the River’s water, together with 25 other similar dams in construction or planned for the Chiriquí Viejo River, will transform it into a series of isolated pools with obvious harm to the region’s biodiversity and people that depend on the river.
Group of Mongolian herder households files complaint with Meg Taylor, the Vice President of the IFC and MIGA’s accountability mechanism, the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (“CAO”), at the World Bank’s Annual Meetings in Tokyo.
Vinod Thomas (left), Director General of Independent Evaluation at the Asian Development Bank, and Manish Bapna (right), managing director of the World Resources Institute, say growth won’t last without sustainability and equality
Members of Congress, including Democratic Leader Pelosi and members of House Financial Services Committee, write to U.S. agencies and World Bank President Kim to back proper U.S. government oversight, independent accountability mechanisms and stronger safeguard policies
On a recent visit to Washington, DC, representatives of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) met with senior officials at the World Bank including the country director for Tunisia to discuss the Bank’s involvement in the country generally and its engagement with the union particularly.
Nezir Sinani of Kosovo’s Institute for Development Policy explains the link between the development of coal-based energy solutions, energy costs, and poverty within Kosovo
Complaint submitted to World Bank Inspection Panel implicates the World Bank in serious human rights abuses carried out by the Ethiopian government through forced villagization
The World Bank Board of Directors has announced plans to consider a copper and gold mining project in the Mongolian South Gobi desert even though the Bank itself acknowledges that there is not enough water in the region to support the life of the Project.