The establishment of the Inspection Panel marked a significant development, driven by the pressure exerted by people's movements and civil society organizations (CSOs), during a period when the World Bank Group operated under the...
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...
October 31, 2018, Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Jam v. International Finance Corporation (IFC), a landmark lawsuit that will decide if international organizations are absolutely immune from lawsuits in U.S. courts....
In the run-up to this week’s 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...
A fishing community in India challenges the bank’s private-lending arm in the US Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court sits more than 12,000 miles from Tragadi Bandar, the patch of India’s west coast where...
For Immediate Release U.S. Government Opposes “Absolute” Immunity for World Bank Group in Brief to SCOTUS Washington, D.C., August 1, 2018 – Late yesterday, the U.S. Government urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse...
Most of the International Financial Institutions enjoy legal immunity in most of the countries. The immunity enjoyed by IFI’s like the World Bank Group raises pertinent questions around the extent of immunity granted to...
