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March 11, 2026
Challenging Legal Impunity Granted to IFIs
Most of the International Financial Institutions enjoy legal immunity in most of the countries. The immunity enjoyed by IFI’s like the World Bank Group raises pertinent questions around the extent of immunity granted to these institutions to obstruct people’s fundamental right to access justic...
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February 24, 2026
Mumbai Resolution on Infrastructure Financing in India
In the political resolution adopted at the end of the People Convention on Infrastructure Financing delegates resolved to challenge the undemocratic and economically unsound functioning of IFIs including AIIB, World Bank, IFC and others. The Convention also resolved to push for people-centered alter...
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February 23, 2026
Booklet: The Trap of Doing Business Rankings
The Doing Business Report and the Ease of Doing Business Index is one of the flagship reports of the World Bank Group, a co-publication of World Bank and International Finance Corporation – the private arm of the World Bank Group. The report gets massive media attention and influences governments a...
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May 24, 2018
MASS Welcomes US Supreme Court’s Decision on IFC Case
For immediate release MASS Welcomes the US Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear the Case Challenging World Bank Group Immunity This will be the first time the US Supreme Court will address the scope of international organisations’ immunity. May 21, 2018, Mundra, Gujarat: Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sanga...
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August 12, 2019
What You Won’t Hear at the World Bank’s Spring Meetings Next Week
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 “discuss issues of global concern, including the world economic outlook, poverty eradication, economic devel...
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June 11, 2018
Legal Experts Urge Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging World Bank Immunity
International law and human rights law experts are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our clients’ case, Jam v. International Finance Corporation challenging the immunity of the International Finance Corp. (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank Group. The Supreme Court has never before...
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