Press Statement | 10.10.2025Crucial Facts Concealed During Court Hearings on Tata Mundra: CAO Report Communities Still Await Remedy as IFC Walks Away from Its Obligations
Kutch, Gujarat: The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) concealed crucial evidence of International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) fa...
While IFC’s withdrawal is welcome, civil society urges the Bank to stop funding WTE projects and move towards zero-waste solutions instead.
On 17 February, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private sector arm, confirmed it will not provide a planned $40 million loan to su...
SOLIDARITY PRESS RELEASE
February 21, 2025 – In a major victory for communities, environmental groups, and civil society organisations (CSOs) who have been fighting against the proposed toxic and polluting Waste-to-Energy (WTE) incineration projects in Gujarat, India, the International Finance Corpo...
October 19, 2023
The undersigned organizations are gravely concerned about the recent media report of child sexual abuse at Bridge International Academies in Kenya, and allegations that the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) for years turned a blind eye to the abuse.
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We 20 Summit: August 18,19 & 20th, 2023
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The We20: Peoples’ Summit on G20 organised by over 70 organisations from different parts of the country concluded...
Landmark corporate accountability case resulted in critical reforms for the World Bank’s lending arm.
April 26, 2022 New Delhi: Last evening India time, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition from a fishing community from the coast at Mundra, Gujarat whose livelihoods have been destroyed by Tata ...
In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Ranking (DBR). This overdue decision came after a series of internal audits and an investigation that revealed serious ethical improprieties, conflicts of interest inherent in the Bank’s...
Highlight the Impacts on Key Sectors in India During IMF-WB 2020 Annual Meetings
Date: 12 October, 2020
New Delhi: People’s Movements, Civil Society Groups, and concerned citizens are coming together to protest the World Bank’s policies, interventions and impacts which negatively impacted t...
& Recommendations from the External Review of IFC/MIGA E&S Accountability, including CAO’s Role & Effectiveness
We welcome the opportunity to comment on the report of the external review team. At the outset, the recommendations reinforce our long-running calls to address the accounta...
of External Review of IFC/MIGA E&S Accountability, including CAO’s Role and Effectiveness
After 20 years of its existence, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) and International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) social and environmental accountability review has been initiated. This review...
