The World Bank Group is in the process of formulating its first Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for India for which consultations are in process to come out with Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD), which will...
Indian fishing communities will ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case against World Bank Group challenging “absolute immunity” Contact: Gillian Wilson +1 (202) 466 5188 x114 gillian@earthrights.org September 27, 2017, Washington, D.C. Indian fishing...
Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones August 25, 2017, Kutch, Gujarat: Communities affected by the Tata Mundra (Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd – CGPL) coal power plant in Kutch...
We all know of the killing impacts of coal based power plants – from the massive air pollution, from water contamination and from the dirty coal mines. As per the “State of Global Air...
August 23, 2017, New Delhi: “The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore,” said senior journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. The former editor of EPW and...
Press Statement: 22 .8.2017 ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report on Tata Mundra rejected: Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones Kutch, Gujarat: Communities affected by the Tata Mundra (Coastal Gujarat Power...
For Immediate Release After a Judge declared World Bank immunity cases “wrongly decided,” the communities affected by the Tata Mundra project approach US court to review “absolute immunity” doctrine Communities harmed by Tata Mundra...
Like India once had a Ministry of Disinvestment, it’s time she has a Ministry of Loss Making. How else can one understand government’s eagerness to buy out all loss making projects, whether in coal,...
A U.S. Federal Court has held that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is entitled to “absolute immunity” from lawsuits brought by communities harmed by IFC projects. The case, filed by communities affected by the...
For Immediate Release Federal Appeals Court Rules That World Bank Group Cannot Be Sued For Harming Communities Affected Communities Plan Further Legal Challenge June 27, 2017, Washington D.C., and Mundra: The U.S. Court of...
Press Statement | 26 June 2017 Bailout Pleas by both Adani and Tata Projects in Mundra a symptom of larger menace; Government should not acquire liabilities, to waste public money; Both corporations should be...
February 07, 2017: Mundra, Gujarat The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments in Budha Ismail Jam v. International Finance Corporation, a case against the International Finance Corporation (IFC),...
In the process of establishing an ultra mega power project, CGPL has caused irreversible damage to the fragile ecosystem of Kutch At a time when the biggest seller of weapons is bestowed with the...
The International Finance Corporation has funded projects in India that have caused large scale violation of environmental and social laws. In a recent move, India has extended the United Nations (Privileges and Immunities) Act, 1947 (46 of 1947), which...