October 5, 2018, New Delhi: Medha Patkar, Bharat Patel, Nityanand Jayaraman and other members of the CSOs across India, have criticised the Working Group of the World Bank Boardās Committee on Development Effectiveness (CODE),...
Submission to the Inspection Panel Working Group We are happy to note the Working Group of the World Bank Boardās Committee on Development Effectiveness is reviewing the Inspection Panelās toolkit to determine whether it...
In a historic 7-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme CourtĀ decidedĀ today inĀ Jam v. International Finance Corporation (IFC)Ā that international organizations like the World Bank Group can be sued in U.S. courts. The Courtās decision marks a defining...
The World Bank Group will host its 2018 Spring Meetings next week, bringing together representatives of governments, banking institutions, civil society, the private sector, and academics to ādiscuss issues of global concern, including the...
International Finance Corporationās (IFC) grievance redressal body Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) in its compliance investigation report has indicted IFC for not following its Performance Standards in Vizhinjam International Seaport Limited (VISL), a special purpose...
International law and human rights law experts are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our clientsā case, Jam v. International Finance Corporation challenging the immunity of the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the private...
For Immediate Release The US Supreme Court is Our Last Hope to Ensure Accountability of the World Bank Group January 23, 2018, Washington, D.C. and Mundra, Gujarat: Fishing communities and farmers affected by Tata...
The World Bank has spent the past four years overhauling the rules it applies to prevent or mitigate social and environmental harm from the development projects it finances. But human rights are all but...
A recent article on the much-acclaimed accountability mechanism of World Bank, the Inspection Panel (IP), indicates that all is not well with it and it could get its wings clipped. The discussion on the...
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...