Summary of environmental health problems and human rights violations related to the Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field
Compliance mechanisms
Accountability
News
Bank facilitates illegal logging in Cambodia
According to NGOs, the World Bank has facilitated illegal logging in Cambodia, violating its own operational policies in the process.
Accountability
News
Chad-Cameroon pipeline: Corruption and double standards
The Bank’s claim that the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project proves that petro-dollars can benefit the poor is undermined by the claims of local communities and NGOs who cite numerous examples of violations of social and environmental safeguards.
Accountability
News
Coal India: Bank Board demands minimal action
The World Bank Board has responded to a critical findings of its own Inspection Panel, but has done little to remedy the situation of the local people who have suffered.
Accountability
News
IFC project on Bushmen’s land
Most of the Bushmen of a Kalahari reserve in Botswana have been evicted to make way for exploitation of diamonds. Now the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is funding further exploration.
Accountability
Background
Citizen complaint mechanisms in the World Bank Group
A brief outline of the workings of the Inspection Panel and the Compliance Adviser Ombudsman, the two principal complaint mechanisms of the World Bank.
Accountability
News
Argentinian groups challenge IMF pressure on utility prices
Members of Argentine civil society organisations, Jimena Garrote and Ezequiel Nino, discuss a complaint filed with the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), denouncing the pressure exerted by IMF representatives in negotiations with the Argentine government.
Accountability
News
Panel claim in Ecuador
The Prodeminca mining project in Ecuador, officially called the Ecuadorian Mining and Environment Technical Assistance Project, involves a loan for $14 million that was approved in 1994.
Accountability
News
Brazil land reform Panel request denied
The second Inspection Panel claim on the pilot phase of the Brazilian land reform project, commonly known as Cedula da Terra, was denied for reasons of eligibility of the requesters.
Accountability
News
Board approves Inspection Panel changes
In late April, after a contentious internal review, the World Bank Board approved changes to its Inspection Panel, the forum for citizen complaints about Bank-financed projects that harm people and the environment.
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16 October 2024
The lost call for international financial architecture reform in the G20
At the 80th anniversary of the World Bank and IMF, global civil society must maintain pressure on the Brazilian and South African G20 presidencies to ensure the forth Financing for Development Conference in 2025 results in urgently required international financial architecture reform.