Complaint > Development Forestry Sector Management Project

Filing: 69-Request for Inspection Attachments (English)

...changes in the companies’ ownership and permitting a company to bid upon a concession even through one of the company’s owners owed money to the government; • Breaches of laws prohibiting collusion between bidders; • Violations of laws prohibiting the award of logging concessions on private land; • Negotiations that illegally changed the tax requirements outlined in bid documents after bids had been awarded. Had the contractual changes not been exposed by intern...

Complaint > EPS Emergency Power Sector Reconstruction Loan, EPS Power II and EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Filing: Complaint

...change substantially in the next few years”. First, although 'substantially' can be open to interpretation, we would argue that production was planned to change substantially from 2011 onwards, and that this was known at the time of the appraisal of the project. This is shown for example in the General Regulation Plan for the Area of Barosevac, Medosevac, Zeoke and Burovo (2008) (p.5), which shows that in 2011 production for the Kolubara basin was planned to be at 30 million tonnes while in 2020...

Complaint > Phase 1B of Lesotho Highlands Water Project, 1st Request

Filing: 12-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate that now exists. 1.4 The LHWP. By way of background to the LHWP itself, concerns have often been expressed about design flaws associated with the first (completed) dam (Katse, Phase 1A). This Claim is based on the argument that "both Phase 1A and the next dam to be built -- Mohale (along with a diversion weir and tunnel to the Katse Reservoir), known as "Phase 1B" -- cause harm to the claimants and others similarly situated. Indeed we believe that a $50 million World Bank loan for Phase ...

Complaint > Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

Filing: Request for Inspection (English)

...change not compensated 9 Cl (mg/l) 1.2 1 1 change not compensated 10 SO4 (mg/l) 35.9 21.1 19.6 change not compensated 11 Sodium (mg/l) 10 2.1 2.6 change not compensated 12 Potassium (mg/l) 3 2.3 2.2 change not compensated 13 PO4 (mg/l) 0.031 0.036 0.048 change not...

Complaint > Protection of Basic Services Program Phase II Additional Financing and Promoting Basic Services Phase III Project

Filing: 82-Request for Inspection (English)

...changed in 2005. In the aftermath of the national election that year, State security forces reacted to protests with excessive force, killing 200 and arresting over 30,000 people.45 These State-perpetrated abuses led to a suspension of direct budget support by the World Bank and other members of the Development Assistance Group (DAG), a consortium of 26 donors to Ethiopia. 36. Noting the risks of continuing direct budget support in this political environment, ...

Complaint > EPS Kolubara Environmental Improvement

Filing: Complaint

...changed much over the past 20 years, regardless of changes of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia since 2006. Apart from the strict centralization of decision- making, this institutional framework creates a large lack of responsibility of each entity. Since the decision is not bound to the implementation, each entity of the institutional framework may adopt any decision, and then transfers responsibility to the superior entity for the lack of implementation. Only the Government has no suc...

Complaint > Governance Promotion Adjustment Loan

Filing: 25-Request for Inspection (English)

...changed in the alienation of their timber resources. In 1990 the World Bank and other donors began to support the State in its attempts to re-assert control over the logging industry. While new legislation and a series of donor -funded activities brought some change, real change was slow in coming and sometimes difficult to see. Certainly, governance was absent in 1994, when a Minister for Forests unlawfully allowed a logging company to begin a road-line clearance of the claimants land: t...

Complaint > Haiti Mining Dialogue Technical Assistance

Filing: 100-Request for Inspection (French)

...Climate Change Resilience? (La Sécheresse Actuelle en Haïti: une Opportunité pour Construire la Résilience au Changement Climatique?) (22 avril 2014), Oxfam America, disponible à http://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2014/04/haiti-drought-opportunity-build-climate-change- resilience/. 107 Voir, par exemple, Evens Sanon et Trenton Daniel, Official: Haiti Drought Causes ‘Extreme’ Emergency Officiel: la Sécheresse en Haït Provoque une 'Extreme' Urgence, Associated Press (18 mars 2014), disp...

Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

Filing: 89-Request for Inspection (English and Russian)

...climate,any investment in the agricultural system merely sustains the state-order system and forced labor which underpins it. In addition, the massive and nationwide forced labor of government employees strains the delivery of many public services, including essential medical care and education. Just in Tashkent, approximately 11,000 nurses and doctors from hospitals and clinics were sent to the fields during the 2012 cotton harvest. As in previous years so in 2012, both high school and universi...

Complaint > Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...changed. Typologies exercises conducted by the FATF have indicated increasing use of bureaux de change in laundering operations. Hence it is important that there should be effective counter-measures in this area. This Interpretative Note clarifies the application of FATF Recommendations concerning the financial sector in relation to bureaux de change and, where appropriate, sets out options for their implementation. Definition of Bureaux de Change For the purpose of this Note, bureaux de cha...

Complaint > MHP Corporate Support Loan, MHP Biogas

Filing: Complaint (English)

...climate change, human rights and gender.” In line with the EC’s approach and the Court’s rulings regarding the implementation of the EIA Directive, Performance Requirement 1 #9 goes on to instruct that environmental and social assessment should identify associated facilities that are essential to the viability of the project, as well as cumulative impacts “of the project in combination with impacts from other relevant past, present and reasonably foreseeable developments as well as unp...

Complaint > Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 13

...change le nom du pays, qui redevient la République démocratique du Congo après s’être appelé, depuis 1971, République du Zaïre. Un décret-loi constitutionnel relatif à l’exercice du pouvoir est promulgué. Bien qu’il ne contenait pas de titre spécifique consacré aux droits fondamentaux, son article 2 dispose néanmoins que l’exercice des droits et libertés individuels et collectifs est garanti, sous réserve du respect de la loi, de l’ordre public et des bonnes mœurs. 7. Mais le 2 août 1998 une...

Complaint > Altain Khuder debt & equity

Filing: Complaint

...change. 9 Cash instead of land based compensation Regardless of whether the compensation amounts reflected the true value of the herders’ camps, a different issue is that cash payments are not effective means of compensating and resettling herders in the first place. As described above, land tenure in Mongolia is highly complex and land is often managed under customary arrangements, of...

Complaint > Rio Bogota Environmental Recuperation and Flood Control Project

Filing: 108-Request for Inspection

...changed your mind? 10. Why violate the principles and agreements enshrined in Law 164 of October 27, 1994 (ratifying the country’s adherence to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change); the same applies to Law 629 of December 27, 2000 ratifying the country’s adherence to the Kyoto Protocol on GHG (Greenhouse Gases). 11. Dr. Peñaloza, why are you “proposing that Bogota become a conurbation with the four municipalities? This is why CA...

Complaint > Nedbank Tier II-01/Kintinian

Filing: Letter of complaint to CAO with annexes - Nedbank-01 - April 2017

...change Commi ssion (Annex 1). If the IFC policy were properly followed, we would expect to find in that agreement a requirement on AngloGold Ashanti to apply the Performance Standards to its mining operations in Guinea, since the high level of risks of industrial mining operations to people and the environment are well known. There is no such term in the agreement, save an undertaking by AngloGold Ashanti that it is in compliance with all applicable environmental laws and permits as neces...

Complaint > Salala Rubber Corporation-01/Margibi and Bong

Filing: CAO Complaint - Liberia - Salala Rubber Corporation 01

...climate change.442 During the lifecycle of SRC’s project, SRC is required to: . . . consider ambient conditions and apply pollution prevention and control technologies and practices that are best suited, or where avoidance is not feasible, minimize or reduce adverse impacts on human health and the environment while remaining technically and financially feasible. . . [.]443 176. “Polluti...

Complaint > Maple Energy-01/Nuevo Sucre and Canaan

Filing: English

...climate of fear among Shipibo women such that they are kept from their own lands near Maple’s work areas due to fear of sexual abuse by Maple workers. No Management Program Maple also failed to prepare a management program (paras. 13-14) or action plan (para. 16). If they were prepared, they have not been disclosed despite the request of the communities. The mitigation measures and corrective actions that should have been identified in an action plan were not taken, resulting i...

Complaint > Transitional Support for Economic Recovery Credit and Emergency Economic and Social Reunification Support Project

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 24

...changer situation comme désespérée. Les Batwa ruraux ont parlé des idées, discuter et bâtir des réseaux. des problèmes qu’ils jugeaient les plus importants et Les Batwa veulent que leurs communautés locales devant changer : la dépossession des terres ; la famine et soient représentées par leurs propres organisations la pauvreté ; la discrimination (en relation aux droits de auprès des institutions extérieures, comme les structures l’être humain, l’éducation, la s...

Complaint > Alex Dev-01/Wadi al-Qamar

Filing: Egypt Alex-Dev Complaint

...climate change. Alexandria Portland Cement intends to begin using coal as a cheap source of energy instead of natural gas. The disclosure letter sent to the Egyptian Stock Exchange states that the company has already made investments to begin operating with coal starting in 2014, regretting that the project has been delayed because of resistance and 22 Attachment no.9 postponements by the former environment minister. A supporter of the move to renewable and clean energy sources and an oppon...

Complaint > Ituango Hydropower Plant

Filing: Request Receipt

...Climate ICOLD, 1997, Position Paper on Dams and the Change), 1992, 1992 IPCC Supplement, Environment, Paris, International Geneva, World Meteorological Commission on Large Dams. Organisation. ICOLD, 1998, ICOLD World Register of Dams, IPCC, 1996, Climate Change 1995: The Science of Computer Database, Paris, International Climate Change, (eds) Houghton JT, Meiro Commission o...