Complaint > Accelerating Infrastructure Investment Facility in India - Tranche 1

Filing: Complaint

...Labor Standards, no explicit ratification is needed for them to be part of the legislative framework of a country. The Core Labor Standards consist of (a) freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining, (b) the abolition of all forms of forced or compulsory labor, (c) the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation, and (d) the elimination of child labor. All Asian and Pacific DMCs,6by virtu...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Filing: Request for compliance review

...children three nutritional meals per day. Some have relied on limited food aid from an NGO. Most parents also said that one or more of the children have stopped going to school. Both younger and older children are affected, but while there is a primary school nearby, there is no secondary school so teenage children are more likely to have dropped out. Parents reported noticing a regression in children’s grades or skills, including reading. In some cases children are working to supplement h...

Complaint > Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project

Dispute Resolution: Review and Assessment report (RAR) (English)

...labor, some work outside Fuzhou City and in other provinces, and one person has a permanent job with the local government. All of them have identification cards and residence registration books12 from their home towns. Two complainants seem to have residence certificates for Fuzhou City. The complainants explained that they have no houses anywhere else and nowhere to go since they have lived in the current location for the past 15 years. The land for the seven houses was acquired in two pl...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project

Compliance Report: CRP’s Final Report (English)

...children. More than likely, this has affected his ability to support the family. The CRP visited this home and found it to be in poor condition compared with the other houses at the resettlement site. The family has other children, who are equally poorly off. The loss of these two children represents, among others, a loss of future income and support for this family. 112. The child in Poipet who died on the way home from school was in a comparable situation. There was a longer distance bet...

Complaint > Uttarakhand State-Road Investment Program - Tranche 3

Closing Report: Closure Report

...labor laws of the Borrower and the State and that these further include provisions to the effect that contractors (i) carry out HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention programs for labor and disseminate information at work sites on risks of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS as part of health and safety measures for those employed during construction, and (ii) follow and implement all statutory provisions on labor (including not employing or using children as labor, equal pay for e...

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Compliance Report: Final Report (English)

...labor colony NAAQS=National Ambient Air Quality Standards; PM-10=(respirable) particulate matter less than or equal to 10 microns; PPAH=Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook; SPM= suspended particulate matter; WB=World Bank. Note: Air quality monitoring was conducted at 7 nearby villages and CGPL’s main gate, hostel and labor colony during January 2013-March 2013. Source: Quarterly Environmental & Social Performance Report-Tata Ultra Mega Coal Fired Power Plant, Mundra, Period: Janu...

Complaint > Clean Energy and Network Efficiency Improvement Project

Closing Report: Closure Report

...Labor Standards 51. The Borrower shall ensure, or cause CEB and SLSEA to ensure, that all civil works contracts and bidding documents for the Project include specific provisions requiring contractors to (a) comply with all applicable labor laws of the Borrower on the prohibition of child and forced labor; (b) give equal pay for equal work regardless of gender, ethnicity or caste; and (c) disseminate information on sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV/AIDS) and human trafficking t...

Complaint > Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project

Monitoring: CRP 2nd Annual Monitoring Report (English)

...children. Only 14 children were identified as affected by respiratory diseases in villages located within the airshed compared to 2 children in the 2 control villages. Of the 14 children identified as affected by respiratory diseases, only 7 children were clinically examined. This sample size is too small to draw robust conclusions and to establish a baseline. This is regrettable as the most immediate health impact of elevated levels of PM10 and PM2.5 are respiratory diseases among the youn...

Complaint > Community Empowerment for Rural Development Project

Dispute Resolution: Review and Assessment Report (RAR) (English)

...laborers willing to work below the official daily wages occurred in one village; and (iv) in another village not everybody could be employed in the project. Negative economic impacts of infrastructure, some of them during construction, few still on-going are related to (i) increased transport costs due to worsening road condition; (ii) loss of income due to loss of paddy fields provided for road construction;14 (iii) closed culverts hampering drainage of paddy fields in dry season and resul...