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The Long Isun Indigenous community has formally rejected a World Bank-backed forest carbon project, citing decades of land disputes, inadequate protections, and systemic exclusion.
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Tolak Proyek Karbon, Masyarakat Long Isun Surati Bank Dunia
Masyarakat adat Long Isun di Kaltim menyurati Bank Dunia untuk menolak proyek karbon karena dinilai merugikan.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Long Isun Indigenous community has formally rejected a World Bank-backed forest carbon project, citing decades of land disputes, inadequate protections, and systemic exclusion.
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A Global Report reveals that Development Banks’ Accountability Systems are failing communities...
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A Global Report reveals that Development Banks’ Accountability Systems are failing communities.
By Witness Radio team. For decades, development projects have been funded to address some of the World’s most pressing problems, including poverty, wildlife conservation, and climate change. However, ...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:23 AM
A Global Report reveals that Development Banks’ Accountability Systems are failing communities...
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Last week, we issued a joint statement with #WitnessRadio on a recent report concerning the #KIIDP-2 project in Uganda. It overlooks key concerns from affected communities, like intimidation and suppressed participation.
📄 Read the full statement: bit.ly/4pKpzEB
📄 Read the full statement: bit.ly/4pKpzEB
Response by Advisers of Project Affected Peoples to the DRS Follow-Up Report on the Uganda KIIDP-2 Case | Accountability Counsel
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December 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Last week, we issued a joint statement with #WitnessRadio on a recent report concerning the #KIIDP-2 project in Uganda. It overlooks key concerns from affected communities, like intimidation and suppressed participation.
📄 Read the full statement: bit.ly/4pKpzEB
📄 Read the full statement: bit.ly/4pKpzEB
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Close the remedy gap ⚠️
Independent Accountability Mechanisms are often the only route communities have to seek remedy when they have suffered harm from MDB projects. Yet their chances of getting justice are very low.
A new report by @accountcounsel.bsky.social reveals more 🧵
Independent Accountability Mechanisms are often the only route communities have to seek remedy when they have suffered harm from MDB projects. Yet their chances of getting justice are very low.
A new report by @accountcounsel.bsky.social reveals more 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Close the remedy gap ⚠️
Independent Accountability Mechanisms are often the only route communities have to seek remedy when they have suffered harm from MDB projects. Yet their chances of getting justice are very low.
A new report by @accountcounsel.bsky.social reveals more 🧵
Independent Accountability Mechanisms are often the only route communities have to seek remedy when they have suffered harm from MDB projects. Yet their chances of getting justice are very low.
A new report by @accountcounsel.bsky.social reveals more 🧵
Human rights and environmental defenders show extraordinary persistence as they address the most critical crises of our time, but often face retaliation and delay instead of redress. Read more about this justice gap, & pathways for reform, in our comprehensive new research: bit.ly/Accountabili...
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Human rights and environmental defenders show extraordinary persistence as they address the most critical crises of our time, but often face retaliation and delay instead of redress. Read more about this justice gap, & pathways for reform, in our comprehensive new research: bit.ly/Accountabili...
Investor-level accountability mechanisms can facilitate remedy—from compensation, to improved labor practices, community health programs, and environmental protection—but such successes are the exception rather than the norm. Read about this justice gap in our new report: bit.ly/Accountabili...
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Investor-level accountability mechanisms can facilitate remedy—from compensation, to improved labor practices, community health programs, and environmental protection—but such successes are the exception rather than the norm. Read about this justice gap in our new report: bit.ly/Accountabili...
A community’s lands are still included in a #WorldBank carbon project, even AFTER they opted out.
#FPIC only counts if denied consent is respected. Their complaint challenges a system that rewards commercial exploitation over Indigenous stewardship.
Read: accountabilitycounsel.org/client-case/...
#FPIC only counts if denied consent is respected. Their complaint challenges a system that rewards commercial exploitation over Indigenous stewardship.
Read: accountabilitycounsel.org/client-case/...
Indonesia: East Kalimantan Project for Emission Reductions Results | Accountability Counsel
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November 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A community’s lands are still included in a #WorldBank carbon project, even AFTER they opted out.
#FPIC only counts if denied consent is respected. Their complaint challenges a system that rewards commercial exploitation over Indigenous stewardship.
Read: accountabilitycounsel.org/client-case/...
#FPIC only counts if denied consent is respected. Their complaint challenges a system that rewards commercial exploitation over Indigenous stewardship.
Read: accountabilitycounsel.org/client-case/...
“Our forest is our life. If it’s taken, we lose everything.”
For the Long Isun community, conservation should mean respect, not exclusion. They’re calling on the #WorldBank to fix a broken system that profits from their forests w/o consent.
Their story: accountabilitycounsel.org/client-case/...
For the Long Isun community, conservation should mean respect, not exclusion. They’re calling on the #WorldBank to fix a broken system that profits from their forests w/o consent.
Their story: accountabilitycounsel.org/client-case/...
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Our forest is our life. If it’s taken, we lose everything.”
For the Long Isun community, conservation should mean respect, not exclusion. They’re calling on the #WorldBank to fix a broken system that profits from their forests w/o consent.
Their story: accountabilitycounsel.org/client-case/...
For the Long Isun community, conservation should mean respect, not exclusion. They’re calling on the #WorldBank to fix a broken system that profits from their forests w/o consent.
Their story: accountabilitycounsel.org/client-case/...
The Indigenous Long Isun community in #Borneo is breaking barriers. 🌿
After years of exclusion and harm under a #WorldBank funded carbon project, they filed a formal complaint this week demanding justice, recognition + respect for their forest stewardship.
Read more: bit.ly/LongIsunCamp...
After years of exclusion and harm under a #WorldBank funded carbon project, they filed a formal complaint this week demanding justice, recognition + respect for their forest stewardship.
Read more: bit.ly/LongIsunCamp...
Long Isun Community Pushes for Mediation in Formal Complaint Against World Bank Carbon Project in Indonesia / Masyarakat Long Isun Mendorong untuk Diadakannya Mediasi dalam Komplain Resmi terhadap Pro...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Indigenous Long Isun community in #Borneo is breaking barriers. 🌿
After years of exclusion and harm under a #WorldBank funded carbon project, they filed a formal complaint this week demanding justice, recognition + respect for their forest stewardship.
Read more: bit.ly/LongIsunCamp...
After years of exclusion and harm under a #WorldBank funded carbon project, they filed a formal complaint this week demanding justice, recognition + respect for their forest stewardship.
Read more: bit.ly/LongIsunCamp...
UPDATE: A Lesotho community's complaint to the @afdbgroup.bsky.social #IndependentRecourseMechanism has been REGISTERED!
This means the IRM has now informed Bank Management, the Board + the President of the community's concerns. Management must respond within 21 days. 📆
Read more: bit.ly/4qFsS19
This means the IRM has now informed Bank Management, the Board + the President of the community's concerns. Management must respond within 21 days. 📆
Read more: bit.ly/4qFsS19
Lesotho: Lesotho Highlands Water Project | Accountability Counsel
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November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
UPDATE: A Lesotho community's complaint to the @afdbgroup.bsky.social #IndependentRecourseMechanism has been REGISTERED!
This means the IRM has now informed Bank Management, the Board + the President of the community's concerns. Management must respond within 21 days. 📆
Read more: bit.ly/4qFsS19
This means the IRM has now informed Bank Management, the Board + the President of the community's concerns. Management must respond within 21 days. 📆
Read more: bit.ly/4qFsS19
“For an ambitious One World Bank Group, you need a state-of-the-art accountability mechanism to underpin it,” said Margaux Day, executive director at the Accountability Counsel ...
“There’s potential for improvement, but efficiency can’t become a weapon to limit effectiveness,” she added.
“There’s potential for improvement, but efficiency can’t become a weapon to limit effectiveness,” she added.
As the bank tries to streamline overlapping functions, board members sought to assure civil society groups that communities negatively affected by the institution's projects will have the same level of access to accountability functions.
World Bank pledges ‘no regression’ as it weighs accountability overhaul
World Bank pledges ‘no regression’ as it weighs accountability overhaul
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October 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“For an ambitious One World Bank Group, you need a state-of-the-art accountability mechanism to underpin it,” said Margaux Day, executive director at the Accountability Counsel ...
“There’s potential for improvement, but efficiency can’t become a weapon to limit effectiveness,” she added.
“There’s potential for improvement, but efficiency can’t become a weapon to limit effectiveness,” she added.
Yesterday at the #WBGMeetings AC’s Margaux Day highlighted the risks and opportunities of a potential integration of the World Bank Group accountability mechanisms. Any future plans must place communities at the center & deliver true accountability & remedy @re-course.org @inclusivedevt.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Yesterday at the #WBGMeetings AC’s Margaux Day highlighted the risks and opportunities of a potential integration of the World Bank Group accountability mechanisms. Any future plans must place communities at the center & deliver true accountability & remedy @re-course.org @inclusivedevt.bsky.social
We are shocked to learn @ebrd.bsky.social has financed factory farming corporation MHP yet again, while villagers who raised complaints to #IPAM and #CAO about MHP's pollution and damage to homes are still waiting for remedy!
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September 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
We are shocked to learn @ebrd.bsky.social has financed factory farming corporation MHP yet again, while villagers who raised complaints to #IPAM and #CAO about MHP's pollution and damage to homes are still waiting for remedy!
Read the letter: accountabilitycounsel.org/wp-content/u...
Read the letter: accountabilitycounsel.org/wp-content/u...
Respect for local communities’ rights is not a courtesy, it’s a requirement. So why has the Lesotho Highlands Water Project failed to answer communities’ concerns? Villagers have been displaced, their homes damaged, and water sources polluted, without adequate remedy. Read more: bit.ly/46IUg6c
Lesotho villagers complain of damage from water project backed by African Development Bank
About 1,600 people file complaint to AfDB demanding transparency over forced relocations and compensation
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September 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Respect for local communities’ rights is not a courtesy, it’s a requirement. So why has the Lesotho Highlands Water Project failed to answer communities’ concerns? Villagers have been displaced, their homes damaged, and water sources polluted, without adequate remedy. Read more: bit.ly/46IUg6c
Celebrating community power in Lesotho! Hundreds speak out to defend their rights after years of harm from Africa's largest cross-border water transfer project, financed by the African Development Bank
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Communities in Lesotho File Complaint to the African Development Bank Raising the Alarm Over an Unjust Climate Adaptation Project | Accountability Counsel
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September 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Celebrating community power in Lesotho! Hundreds speak out to defend their rights after years of harm from Africa's largest cross-border water transfer project, financed by the African Development Bank
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Journalism has brought me into contact with a lot of sources who tried to blow the whistle. Often, those people ask to be anonymous. This is the rare story of someone who took on a major Wall Street firm and is willing to tell her story. 🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A Private Equity Giant Took Over African Hospitals. Then the Complaints Rolled In
TPG told investors — including the World Bank, the Gates Foundation and Bono — that it would expand access to health care. Whistleblowers say it put profit ahead of patient safety.
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August 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Journalism has brought me into contact with a lot of sources who tried to blow the whistle. Often, those people ask to be anonymous. This is the rare story of someone who took on a major Wall Street firm and is willing to tell her story. 🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The recent #FFD4 conference in Sevilla, Spain resulted in a call for MDBs to triple their financing. If we really want sustainable development, any efforts to increase MDB activities should be met with an increased commitment to accountability and remedy to local communities. bit.ly/40kR2ma
Post Financing for Development, Multilateral Development Banks Must Change Course | Accountability Counsel
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July 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The recent #FFD4 conference in Sevilla, Spain resulted in a call for MDBs to triple their financing. If we really want sustainable development, any efforts to increase MDB activities should be met with an increased commitment to accountability and remedy to local communities. bit.ly/40kR2ma
Proposed revisions to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's accountability mechanism fail to address the massive barriers to accessing the mechanism & other problems w/ the policy. The ongoing consultation process should address these shortcomings. www.accountabilitycounsel.org/2025/07/the-...
The Draft Revised Project Affected People’s Mechanism Policy still falls short of international good practice by a margin | Accountability Counsel
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July 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Proposed revisions to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's accountability mechanism fail to address the massive barriers to accessing the mechanism & other problems w/ the policy. The ongoing consultation process should address these shortcomings. www.accountabilitycounsel.org/2025/07/the-...
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Despite promising to help alleviate poverty, World Bank investments in private hospitals in east Africa have resulted in catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for many.
✍️ Ben Dooley and Micah Reddy at @icij.org report: tinyurl.com/bddc8y8a
✍️ Ben Dooley and Micah Reddy at @icij.org report: tinyurl.com/bddc8y8a
World Bank-financed hospitals left patients with “crushing debt”
Despite promising to help alleviate poverty, World Bank investments in private hospitals
in east Africa have resulted in catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for many. Ben
Dooley and Micah Reddy for th...
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July 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Despite promising to help alleviate poverty, World Bank investments in private hospitals in east Africa have resulted in catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for many.
✍️ Ben Dooley and Micah Reddy at @icij.org report: tinyurl.com/bddc8y8a
✍️ Ben Dooley and Micah Reddy at @icij.org report: tinyurl.com/bddc8y8a
Tune in to listen to AC's Sutharee Wannasiri as she speaks w Dev Kumar Sunuwar of #IndigenousTelevision about the importance of Indigenous Peoples' right to #FreePriorAndInformedConsent when energy projects affect their land, territories + other resources! Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cupR...
Dev's Hammer Show epi 71 | Sutharee Wannasiri_Accountability Counsel, COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATE, ASIA |
YouTube video by Indigenous Television
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July 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Tune in to listen to AC's Sutharee Wannasiri as she speaks w Dev Kumar Sunuwar of #IndigenousTelevision about the importance of Indigenous Peoples' right to #FreePriorAndInformedConsent when energy projects affect their land, territories + other resources! Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cupR...
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✊As the #AfDBAM2025 kicks off in Abidjan today, join us in calling the #AfricanDevelopmentBank to invest in projects that truly protect people & the planet!
Check out our collective demands & updates in the latest newsletter of the AfDB CSOs working group👇
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Check out our collective demands & updates in the latest newsletter of the AfDB CSOs working group👇
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AfDB CSOs Working Group newsletter – May 2025 | The Coalition for Human Rights in Development
Welcome to the 2nd edition of the African Development Bank (AfDB) CSO Working Group newsletter!
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May 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
✊As the #AfDBAM2025 kicks off in Abidjan today, join us in calling the #AfricanDevelopmentBank to invest in projects that truly protect people & the planet!
Check out our collective demands & updates in the latest newsletter of the AfDB CSOs working group👇
bit.ly/AfDBNewslett...
Check out our collective demands & updates in the latest newsletter of the AfDB CSOs working group👇
bit.ly/AfDBNewslett...
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During this #EBRDAM join us in demanding justice for #IndoramaAgro workers in #Uzbekistan, who have suffered severe & systemic human rights violations over the years.
Share widely this op-ed by @uzbekforum.bsky.social @ceebankwatch.bsky.social @accountcounsel.bsky.social 👇https://bit.ly/459m6Is
Share widely this op-ed by @uzbekforum.bsky.social @ceebankwatch.bsky.social @accountcounsel.bsky.social 👇https://bit.ly/459m6Is
May 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
During this #EBRDAM join us in demanding justice for #IndoramaAgro workers in #Uzbekistan, who have suffered severe & systemic human rights violations over the years.
Share widely this op-ed by @uzbekforum.bsky.social @ceebankwatch.bsky.social @accountcounsel.bsky.social 👇https://bit.ly/459m6Is
Share widely this op-ed by @uzbekforum.bsky.social @ceebankwatch.bsky.social @accountcounsel.bsky.social 👇https://bit.ly/459m6Is
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#EBRDAM25 is also a key moment to demand justice for #IndoramaAgro workers in #Uzbekistan, who've suffered severe, systemic human rights violations.
In January, Indorama Agro abruptly prepaid its loans to EBRD, but we're calling the bank not to walk away from its responsibilities.
bit.ly/42elwGt
In January, Indorama Agro abruptly prepaid its loans to EBRD, but we're calling the bank not to walk away from its responsibilities.
bit.ly/42elwGt
Joint statement: Urgent Call on the IFC and the EBRD for Remedy and Accountability at Indorama Agro, Uzbekistan | The Coalition for Human Rights in Development
On April 3, 89 civil society organizations signed a joint statement calling on the IFC and the EBRD to ensure remedy and accountability, for the severe and systemic violations at Indorama Agro cotton ...
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May 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#EBRDAM25 is also a key moment to demand justice for #IndoramaAgro workers in #Uzbekistan, who've suffered severe, systemic human rights violations.
In January, Indorama Agro abruptly prepaid its loans to EBRD, but we're calling the bank not to walk away from its responsibilities.
bit.ly/42elwGt
In January, Indorama Agro abruptly prepaid its loans to EBRD, but we're calling the bank not to walk away from its responsibilities.
bit.ly/42elwGt
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The World Bank has released the first-ever framework to address environmental and social harms caused by projects the bank financed through its private sector branches, including the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
World Bank launches historic framework addressing harms from development projects
The World Bank has released the first-ever framework to address environmental and social harms caused by projects the bank financed through its private sector branches, including the International…
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May 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The World Bank has released the first-ever framework to address environmental and social harms caused by projects the bank financed through its private sector branches, including the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
The UN Working Group on BHR has raised concerns about the new ADB & World Bank Full Mutual Reliance Framework. We agree with the WG’s concern that the FMRF is a dilution of the banks’ DD & accountability standards & call on the banks to ensure that the highest standards are applied bit.ly/4jWb79r
May 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The UN Working Group on BHR has raised concerns about the new ADB & World Bank Full Mutual Reliance Framework. We agree with the WG’s concern that the FMRF is a dilution of the banks’ DD & accountability standards & call on the banks to ensure that the highest standards are applied bit.ly/4jWb79r