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
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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 …
Recent reporting on the Pasto Mocoa Highway have included video of the actual highway that is currently one of the most dangerous roads in Colombia, referred to by some as the “Trampoline of Death.” As an IIRSA priority project with funding in preparation by the IDB, a proposed 50 km rerouting of the section between between San Francisco and Mocoa will pass through the 35,00 ha Upper Mocoa Forest Reserve with impacts on indigenous and farmer communities in the affected region. Among other impacts, the highway improvement is expected to increase investment in mining as indicated by the estimated increase in mining related traffic from zero vehicles to 180 vehicles daily.