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Leading NGOs call on companies to follow the Accountability Framework to end ecosystem destruction and human rights violations in the production, trade, and finance of beef, palm oil, pulp, timber, soy, and other commodities.

April 7, 2018 marks the third anniversary since the brutal assassination of Colombian Indigenous leader Fernando Salazar Calvo, a member of the Embera Chamí People of the Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta, Caldas, and a vocal member of the Resguardo’s Ancestral Miners Association, ASOMICARS.

El 7 de abril marca el tercer aniversario desde el asesinato brutal del líder colombiano indígena Fernando Salazar Calvo, un miembro del pueblo Embera Chamí del Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta (municipios de Risoucio y Supia, Caldas), y miembro vocal de la Asociación de Mineros Ancestrales del Resguardo, ASOMICARS.

Le 7 avril 2018 marque le troisième anniversaire de l’assassinat brutal du leader autochtone colombien Fernando Salazar Calvo, un membre du peuple embera chamí du Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta (municipalités de Risoucio et Supia, Caldas), et membre actif de l’Association des

Tanggal 7 April 2018 menandai peringatan tiga tahun sejak pembunuhan brutal terhadap pemimpin adat Kolombia Fernando Salazar Calvo, anggota Embera Chamí People dari Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta (kotamadya Risoucio dan Supia, Caldas), dan anggota vokal dari Resguardo

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Guest article from Helen Tugendhat in the Bretton Woods Project Observer regarding the World Bank’s decision to grant a waiver of OP4.10 for an agricultural investment project in Tanzania.

Kathmandu, Nepal, July 14, 2015 – Last week an independent investigation revealed serious abuses in a World Bank-funded transmission line project in central Nepal. The Khimti-Dhalkebar transmission line runs through indigenous and rural communities, who have been raising concerns about the project for over five years. Though the findings validate community concerns, the World Bank has not committed to correcting the damage caused by its failures in this project.

Civil society organisations are expressing concern about the format of the third round of consultations for the World Bank safeguard review, requesting broad face-to-face consultations on specific issue areas as well as targeted consultations in Bank borrower countries.Download link

With 57 nations already on board the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as prospective founders, a 250-member strong civil society network made an appeal to the newly-formed bank to adopt robust safeguards in its principles, policies and operations.

This week internal World Bank review documents identified serious shortcomings in the implementation, oversight and management of its resettlement policies and practices.

The purpose of this submission is to highlight key issues for indigenous peoples in the new Environmental and Social safeguard system proposed by the World Bank. The policies referred to herein are the Environmental and Social Policy (ESP) and the Environmental and Social Standards (ESS), 1 through 10, with particular focus on ESS7 on indigenous peoples.

A compilation of a range of opinions from the members of the International Land Coalition regarding their analysis of the potential impact of the proposed changes to the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework on the situation of land tenure around the world.

Lima, Peru, February 4, 2015 - We, the undersigned civil society organizations and social movements of Latin America and the Caribbean, wish to express our profound concern and dissatisfaction with the World Bank’s Environmental and Social Safeguard review process, as well as with the current draft of the new Environmental and Social Policy and Environmental and Social Standards published by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) (which is a part of the World Bank Group).  Likewise, we wish to highlight the lack of receptivity we have witnessed on the part of the Bank to the comments and suggestions we have submitted on previous occasions with regard to this issue.

Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y los movimientos sociales de América Latina y el Caribe abajo firmantes deseamos manifestar nuestra gran preocupación y descontento respecto al proceso de revisión de las Políticas de Salvaguardas Ambientales y Sociales del Banco Mundial, así como con el actual borrador de la nueva Política Ambiental y Social y con los Estándares Ambientales y Sociales, que el Banco Internacional de Reconstrucción y Fomento, BIRF (que hace parte del Grupo del Banco Mundial) ha publicado.

Thousands of homes belonging to hunter-gatherer Sengwer people living in the Embobut forest in the Cherangani hills were burned down earlier this year by Kenya forest service guards who had been ordered to clear the forest as part of a carbon offset project that aimed to reduce emissions from deforestation.

A new statement provided to the World Bank highlights the serious concerns indigenous peoples have regarding the World Bank’s proposed (leaked) new standards for projects impacting on indigenous peoples, and specifically a shocking new ‘opt-out’ clause.

El Banco Mundial vulnera los derechos de los pueblos indígenas

97 non-governmental organizations and civil society networks and 17 distinguished individuals from Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America, North America and Europe sent this collaborative statement to the World Bank’s Board, demanding that the draft be sent back to the drawing board and re-written with serious safeguards to respect and protect the land, housing and livelihood rights of the poor.View the statement here

This statement, prepared jointly by the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), contains views and recommendations for improving the draft for the second round of consultations. We have been engaging in the review process since it was launched in 2011 and we hope that the dilutions to the current safeguard policies shall be addressed properly, and the added provisions such as the on the free prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples be strengthened, along with the legal recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples to their lands and resources.