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For Gujarat Fishermen Fighting World Bank, Donald Trump And US Supreme Court Are Unlikely Allies

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...

Read more November 10, 2018 at 1:39 pm Huffington Post

Violations, Inspection Panel’s Report And State Repression In The Amaravati Capital City Project

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...

Read more November 9, 2018 at 4:19 pm CFA

Lack of response by the US Exim bank on the complaint against Sasan Power Plant

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

Read more November 9, 2018 at 4:16 pm CFA

Findings of the IAM and Management’s Response in the GMR Kamalanga Energy Limited

Amulya Kumar Nayak of the Odisha Chas Parivesh Surakhsa Parishad, sharing their experiences with the IAM and the Management’s Response in the GMR Kamalanga Energy Limited, a 1050 MW (with an additional 350 MW)...

Read more November 9, 2018 at 4:11 pm CFA

Suing the World Bank Group to save its mission

In 2015, farmers and fishworkers from rural India sued the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., over impacts from a disastrous coal-fired power plant project that they said destroyed their livelihoods and damaged their...

Read more November 6, 2018 at 3:47 pm Thomson Reuters Foundation

Court Quiet, but Potentially Skeptical, on Immunity for International Organisations

The Supreme Court heard oral argument this morning in a dispute over immunity for the International Finance Corporation, an international organization that makes loans to private businesses to finance projects in developing countries. The...

Read more November 3, 2018 at 12:20 pm Amy Howe

Tata Mundra UMPP: A History of Violations & Peoples’ Resistance

Bharat Patel, General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan, narrating the history of violations by the IFC, Tata Mundra Power Plant and Peoples’ Resistance to it. The MAAS filed a case in the US federal...

Read more October 31, 2018 at 1:16 pm CFA

The IFC has not always practised what it preaches

In the run-up to this week’s Supreme Court hearing, the IFC has announced a series of new policy reforms that strengthen its social and environmental commitments, an effort that is undoubtedly motivated in part...

Read more October 29, 2018 at 11:43 am Kirk Herbertson

US Supreme Court to Consider Immunity for IOs

The plaintiffs contend that the plant’s construction caused saltwater to leach into the local groundwater. They say that the plant’s ‘cooling system discharges thermal pollution into the sea, killing off marine life on which...

Read more October 24, 2018 at 2:15 pm Amy Howe

Update: Tata Mundra, a Story of Violations, Non-Compliance & Impunity

Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project India is part of an ambitious plan, which saw the building of several coal-based thermal power stations to meet India’s energy needs. Located on the western coast of...

Read more October 7, 2018 at 11:56 am Anuradha Munshi

U.S. Government Opposes “Absolute” Immunity for World Bank Group

For Immediate Release U.S. Government Opposes “Absolute” Immunity for World Bank Group in Brief to SCOTUS Washington, D.C., August 1, 2018 – Late yesterday, the U.S. Government urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse...

Read more August 1, 2018 at 3:18 pm CFA

Land Acquisition Amendment Bill of AP is Anti People

Public Statement  | June 1, 2018 Land Acquisition Amendment Bill of Andhra Pradesh is Anti People, We Demand Withdrawal of it A Joint Statement We the people’s movements and Civil Society Organisations from across...

Read more June 1, 2018 at 7:00 pm CFA

MASS Welcomes US Supreme Court’s Decision on IFC Case

For immediate release MASS Welcomes the US Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear the Case Challenging World Bank Group Immunity This will be the first time the US Supreme Court will address the scope of...

Read more May 24, 2018 at 7:56 pm CFA

US Supreme Court to Hear Case on Immunity of IFIs

This will be the first time the US Supreme Court will address the scope of international organisations’ immunity. New Delhi: The U.S. Supreme Court announced on yesterday that it would hear the landmark lawsuit,...

Read more May 22, 2018 at 8:16 pm CFA

What You Won’t Hear at the World Bank’s Spring Meetings Next Week

The World Bank Group will host its 2018 Spring Meetings next week, bringing together representatives of governments, banking institutions, civil society, the private sector, and academics to “discuss issues of global concern, including the...

Read more April 17, 2018 at 3:42 pm Michelle Harrison
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Q&As on Finance in the 2019 Budget Session of the Parliament

The budget session of the parliament witnessed the members asking government questions related to finance. Some of these questions...

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Big Business Captured the Negotiations in Katowice

The Paris Rulebook (renamed the ‘Katowice Rulebook’ by many), the outcome of 24th Conference of Parties to the United Nations...

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