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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...