International Accountability Project

International Construction Review: Who will pay most for Cambodia’s development?

As investors poise to spend billions making Cambodia's undeveloped coast the next hotspot for sunseekers, human rights groups fear that violent and illegal mass evictions will increase to make way for the resorts and supporting infrastructure.

Media Release: Global civil society calls on private banks to withdraw support from Bangladesh coal mine

Thu, 21 Aug 2008

Over 100 civil society organizations from 31 countries are calling on financial backers to withdraw their support of the Phulbari coal project.

Open letter to investors in the Phulbari coal project

Over 100 organizations call on international investors to divest from the Phulbari Coal Project, with the simultaneous release of an critical report by IAP and Bank Information Center.

Housing Rights Activist in Beijing Going to Trial

Not often covered in news around the Olympics is the impact that this event has had on local residents in Beijing. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evicted under often harsh and abusive circumstances and their homes demolished.

New study finds that IFI standards fail to address human rights

Mon, 11 Aug 2008

A review of 60 IFC projects determined that these projects implicated most of the internationally recognized human rights.

BBC News: Indian court approves mining projects that threaten indigenous communities in Orissa

Fri, 08 Aug 2008

India's Supreme Court has said two huge and controversial mining projects can proceed in the eastern state of Orissa, despite opposition from indigenous citizens.

International Day of the World's Indigenous People

Fri, 08 Aug 2008

On the eve of the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, UN officials emphasized the need for political commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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International Herald Tribune on evictions in Cambodia

Cambodians forced from their homes to make way for development in the capital, Phnom Penh, have ended up in squalid camps that lack the most basic services.

Voices of Resistance from Phulbari

A powerful and broad-based movement has emerged in Bangladesh to challenge the proposed open-pit Phulbari Coal Mine. Community elders, local officials, store-owners, doctors and youth leaders express their views on the project. Learn about IAP's work on the Phulbari campaign

Chinese-engineered Sudanese Dam Floods Villages - Farmers

Villagers complained Tuesday that a massive Chinese-engineered hydropower dam under construction in Sudan had deliberately flooded seven small villages and left 200 families homeless.

Terre Rouge, a slide show by John Vink

(Photo, by John Vink) In Cambodia, the number of evictions has exploded, leaving thousands without means of subsistence. Nearly everything is for sale, and land is bought and sold with little regard for the people who live on it.

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NGOs continue to promote open ADB policy review

Fri, 25 Jul 2008

In response to sustained pressure from IAP and partners in NGO Forum on ADB, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to produce a second draft of the Safeguard Policy Statement and to collaborate with NGO Forum in organizing a multi-stakeholder public consultation.