Machimar Adhikaar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS) and Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) get Chico Mendes Award 2019 Statement by CFA Itās an honour to be selected for the Chico Mendes Award 2019, shared with Machimar...
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 ādonāt enjoy absolute immunityā. 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 Bankās 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:Ā 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...
The Mundra residents hope the US top court will allow them to sue the World Bankās IFC, which partly funded Tata Groupās thermal power project. NEW DELHI–Villagers fighting against a controversial Tata Group thermal...
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...
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...
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...
In the run-up to this weekās 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...
The plaintiffs contend that the plantās construction caused saltwater to leach into the local groundwater. They say that the plantās ācooling system discharges thermal pollution into the sea, killing off marine life on which...
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 Indiaās energy needs. Located on the western coast of...
For Immediate Release U.S. Government Opposes āAbsoluteā Immunity for World Bank Group in Brief to SCOTUS Washington, D.C., August 1, 2018 ā Late yesterday, the U.S. Government urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse...
For immediate release MASS Welcomes the US Supreme Courtās 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...
