Civil society groups have reacted angrily to a document circulated by the Extractive Industries Review, the initiative established by the World Bank to make recommendations about its future roles in supporting oil, gas and mining.
Indigenous peoples
IFI governance
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Indigenous policy implementation weak
An official assessment of the Bank’s compliance with its indigenous peoples operational directive confirms criticisms by indigenous peoples’ organisations that the Bank's record is deficient.
Environment
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Indigenous groups angered by Bank policy decisions
Indigenous peoples and NGOs supporting them have released angry statements about the World Bank’s indigenous peoples and forests policies.
Environment
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IFC reviews social and environmental policies
The policies that govern the International Finance Corporation’s approach to core social and environmental issues are currently under review.
Environment
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Extractive Industries Review gets harsh reception
NGOs say the World Bank’s Extractive Industries Review (EIR), launched at a workshop in Brussels at the end of October, has severe shortcomings.
Environment
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Tanzanian authorities attempt to silence activists on Bulyanhulu case
Tanzanian authorities have arrested Rugemeleza Nshala, President of the Lawyers Environmental Action Team (LEAT), and raided the house of another LEAT lawyer, Tundu Lissu in connection with their investigations into abuses and irregularities at the World Bank-backed Bulyanhulu gold mine.
Environment
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New briefings on Bank policy revisions
Forest Peoples’ Programme has produced three new briefings on World Bank policy reformulation processes.
Rights
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Indigenous leaders angry at World Bank, IMF
World Bank and IMF policies harm indigenous communities around the world and are a new form of colonisation, said delegates to the First Millennium Conference of Indigenous Peoples, held in Panama in May.
Conditionality
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Ecuador adjustment protesters strike deal
In late January and early February Ecuadorean indigenous groups led further protests against government and IMF economic policies.
Rights
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Indigenous policy dilution threat
The World Bank’s revised Indigenous Peoples Policy will be released in draft early in 2001 for further consultations.
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The Bretton Woods Observer: Autumn 2024
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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.
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Sustainable development requires sustainable finance: why local currency financing is part of the solution
Multilateral development banks can reduce their dependence on hard currency lending and make local currency financing a central element of their developmental mandate.