Machimar Adhikaar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS) and Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) get Chico Mendes Award 2019 Statement by CFA It’s an honour to be selected for the Chico Mendes Award 2019, shared with Machimar...
For immediate release Inspection Panel’s Report on Amaravati Project only Validates the Issues Raised by CSOs July 26, 2019: Confirming the concerns raised by the communities and civil society organisations, Government of India withdrew...
Press Release | July 23, 2019 After the World Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Pulls Out of Amaravati Capital City Project New Delhi: The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) pulled out of Amaravati Capital...
विश्व बैंक ने अमरावती कैपिटल सिटी परियोजना से हाथ खींचा, लोगों को मिली बड़ी सफ़लता प्रेस विज्ञप्ति | 20 जुलाई, 2019 एक बड़े ऐतिहासिक कदम, जिसका प्रभाव कई स्तर पर देखने को मिलेगा, उठाते...
July 18, 2019: In a significant move, which will have repercussions at multiple levels, yesterday the World Bank has decided to pull out of the $300 million lending to the Amaravati Capital City project...
This brief report aims to throw light on the critical lapses and breaches which have been committed during the design, pre-appraisal and Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment – Environment and Social Management Framework (SESA-ESMF)...
On February 27, 2019, the US Supreme Court in a 7-1 decision ruled that international organisations like the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a private-lending arm of the World Bank Group, do not enjoy absolute...
In its historic decision on 27th Feb 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that international organizations like the World Bank Group “don’t enjoy absolute immunity”. Simply put, with this judgement, the World Bank and...
This February, in a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that financial institutions like the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) are not immune from the law of land, and can be held...
What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement on World Bank Group’s Immunity Mean for the people of Mundra, Gujarat, India and beyond? Dr Bharat Patel General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan and one of...
For Immediate Release February 27, 2019 New Delhi: In a historic 7-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Jam v. IFC that international organizations like the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group...
In the last four years since Amaravati was conceived, the government has successfully aggregated 34,000 acres of land from almost 28,000 farmers. According to agriculture experts, the area between Guntur and Vijayawada, which been...
The Mundra residents hope the US top court will allow them to sue the World Bank’s IFC, which partly funded Tata Group’s thermal power project. NEW DELHI–Villagers fighting against a controversial Tata Group thermal...
Meera Sanghamira of the NAPM speaks on the various violations being done to implement the Amaravati Capital City Project. People’s response to it including approaching the World Bank’s Inspection Panel, which visited and submitted...
Awadhesh Kumar of Srijan Lokhit Samiti speaks on the lack of response by the US Exim bank on the complaint filed against the Sasan Power Plant
