Press Statement | February 19, 2020 US Federal Court Rules in Favour of IFC in Tata Mundra Case: Fishworkers and Farmers to Challenge Decision. IFC hides it shame & guilt behind technicalities of jurisdiction...
Almost a decade after the construction for the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project and eight years since the operations of the project started, a revisit to Mundra tells the story of the destruction...
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...
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।...
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...
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...
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...
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...
March 31, 2019, Mundra, Gujarat: In an afternoon with 41-degree heat, hundreds of men, women, and children from Navinal and Tagri villages of Kutch, and members from the civil society and peoples’ movements from across...
In late February, the US Supreme Court ruled against the claim by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector arm, to absolute immunity from suit in the US. The case was...
For Immediate Release Villagers Celebrate The Historic US Supreme Court’s Verdict Which Ended The Immunity of the IFIs March 31, 2019, Mundra: The air in Mundra filled with the slogans like Kaun Banata Hai...
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...
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...
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...
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...
