Pollution control: Amendments to Water Act is a greenwashing attempt

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) proposed amendments to several environmental laws in July 2022, including the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. The amendments aimed to reduce...

Read more March 24, 2023 at 10:55 am Sruthi Pillai

Why the proposed Silver Line rail project in Kerala is a non-starter

The project is not economically viable; it will also have social and environmental impacts; instead, the government should look at possible alternatives that balance costs and benefits and have fewer impacts. Big infrastructure projects...

Read more March 7, 2022 at 5:02 pm Hariprasad V M

हवा या हीरा | भाग 4

भौतिकवादी विकास करते - करते आज हम उस मुहाने पर आ गए हैं जहां हमें यह तय करना ही होगा, कि हमें क्या चाहिए? प्रकृति के साथ सहअस्तित्व या पर्यावरण नष्ट करके मानव सभ्यता...

Read more February 24, 2022 at 4:44 pm Ankit Mishra

हीरा खनन परियोजना से पन्ना जिले का विकास कहां पहुंचा | भाग 1

बक्सवाहा के जंगल के नीचे हीरे पाए जाने की खोज जबसे रियो टिंटो कंपनी ने की है, तब से बक्सवाहा क्षेत्र के भौतिकवादी विकास और रोजगार के अवसरों की चर्चा जोरों पर है, स्थानीय...

Read more February 24, 2022 at 4:22 pm Ankit Mishra

Smart City in Indore- A Case Study

This case study of Smart City projects in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) includes an overview of the idea and the development work behind these projects. It begins with information about the city of Indore and...

Read more April 7, 2020 at 11:39 am Gaurav Dwivedi

As a Railway Line Grows, a River in Manipur Is Fighting for Survival

This is the second article in a two-part series on the ‘Act East’ railway project in Manipur. Read the first part here. Environmental activists have taken the Ejei river case to the National Green Tribunal,...

Read more February 27, 2020 at 1:08 pm Makepeace Sitlhou

Coal-Ravaged Indian Fishers Take to the Supreme Court

WILD ANIMALS ONCE RAN AMONG the acacia trees outside Navinal, one of many small villages hugging the Gulf of Kutch–an inlet on India’s northwest coast. Gajendra Singh Jadeja remembers them well: Cattle foraged for...

Read more April 26, 2019 at 6:12 pm Sierra Magazine

विश्वबैंक जैसे अंतरराष्ट्रीय संगठनों से टकराते जनांदोलन

विश्वयुद्ध के बाद ब्रिटेन के ब्रेटेनवुड में खादी की गई वैश्विक वित्तीय संस्थाओं की ताक़त एक ज़माने में बेतेरह बढ़ी थी। वे अपनी मनमर्ज़ी के विकास की अवधारणा को दुनियाभर पर थोप सकती थीं।...

Read more April 20, 2019 at 5:28 pm Subah Savere

The World Bank’s Legacy of Environmental Destruction: A Case Study

The World Bank’s support for giant coal fired power plants in India and South Africa illustrate the organisation’s many institutional failings. This article is part of a series by openDemocracy and the Bretton Woods...

Read more April 12, 2019 at 11:07 am Open Democracy

How Gujarat Fishermen Won US Top Court Ruling Against Global Funding Agency

The case, which now goes back to a US district court, relates to alleged pollution caused by a Gujarat-based power plant partly funded by IFC. On February 27, the US Supreme Court ruled in...

Read more April 10, 2019 at 12:04 pm The Indian Express

Cut Out Taking Those Shortcuts

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...

Read more March 14, 2019 at 4:25 pm The Economic Times

Wake Up World Bank

Absolute immunity leads to impunity, and that foments lack of transparency and the reluctance to be held accountable Over three decades back, it looked quite impossible to ask the World Bank to review a...

Read more March 5, 2019 at 11:06 am Joe Athialy

Press Release Peoples Movements and CSOs Welcome the US Supreme Court’s Decision on the Absolute Immunity of the IFIs

For Immediate Release Peoples Movements and Civil Society Organisations Welcome the US Supreme Court’s Decision on the Absolute Immunity of the IFIs March 1, 2019, New Delhi:Peoples movements and civil society organisations from across...

MASS Welcomes The US Supreme Court’s Decision To End The Immunity Of The World Bank Group

This is the first time the US Supreme Court has addressed the scope of international organisations’ immunity February 28, 2019, Mundra, Gujarat: Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS) and the affected communities by the Tata Mundra...

Press Release: Historic Supreme Court Win: WB Group Is Not Above The Law

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...

Read more February 27, 2019 at 11:46 pm CFA

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