The Inspection Panel (IP), the Bank’s compliance body, issued a report in March considering “legitimate” environmental and human rights concerns regarding the Bank’s feasibility study for a project to channel water from the Red Sea to replenish the Dead Sea.
Human rights
Rights
News
IFIs labour approach “will get us in trouble”
With global unemployment at record high levels, the IFIs’ approach to employment is being criticised for still encouraging countries to lower labour protections.
Land
News
World Bank's land policies under fire
In February about 200 people from across Asia demonstrated outside the World Bank office in Bangkok to highlight the failure of the Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI) principles, co-authored by the Bank, to protect small farmers
Accountability
News
The World Bank and extractives: a rich seam of controversy
As World Bank projects fail to reduce corruption in the mining sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), International Financial Corporation (IFC) investments in extractives are provoking complaints and protests around the world.
Infrastructure
News
Petra Kjell joins the Project
We are delighted to welcome Petra Kjell as the new head of the Project's work programme on climate and the environment, human rights and social impacts, taking over from Ama Marston.
Rights
News
IFIs admit failure to put jobs at the centre
While the International Labour Organization (ILO) warns of social unrest coming from record unemployment, the IMF and World Bank are being criticised for hindering workers rights and not putting jobs at the centre of recovery.
Social services
News
Despite evidence, World Bank still promoting water privatisation
Bank-funded private water projects across the world are facing serious problems due to financial, socio-political and operational concerns, but recent trends show that more such projects are coming up in the name of innovative approaches.
Infrastructure
Analysis
No fairy tale
As debates continue at the World Bank about its lending for new coal-fired power plants, residents of the Indian district of Singrauli, the country's coal capital, still live with the lasting social and environmental impacts of decades of coal-related projects and ask why the Bank has never returned to fully address what has been left in the wake of its investments in the region.
Environment
Background
Safeguards and climate finance in Indonesia in the context of REDD+
Notes of meeting, Washington DC, September 23, 2011
Gender
Background
Seminar - Gender Equality Matters: The Way Forward
Notes of meeting, Washington DC, September 21, 2011
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