Complaint > Second Rural Enterprise Support Project

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

...child labor and forced labor, by incorporating into its safeguard policies the core labor standards as defined by the ILO. Bank safeguards should prohibit the use of forced labor or the worst forms of child labor in all Bank projects, as well as in activities that may benefit either directly, or indirectly, from Bank funds. Safeguard policies should work towards the elimination of all forms of child labor, taking into account the distinction between forced child labor and other forms of child la...

Complaint > Transport Sector Development Project - Additional Financing

Filing: Request for Inspection

...children. This has also resulted into marriage breakages. We however pity the girl Child wherever 3/32 such developments shall be effected and sympathize with those where such have been implemented. 7. Increased school dropout and absenteeism and Child labor. Due to increased population there is petty business emerging along the road. School children drop out or are frequently absent due to such activities. The children are a...

Complaint > Bridge International Academies-01/Kenya

Filing: Letter of complaint - Bridge International Academies-01/Kenya - April 2018

...child seeking admission on any ground, including ethnicity, gender, sex, religion, race, colour or social origin, age, disability, language or culture.” The complainants assert that BIA’s activities do not respect children’s right to education without discrimination and that they violate the above-mentioned standards. This statement is true especially for the most marginalized children including children of families living in poverty and children with disabilities. Through its operations, BIA in...

Complaint > Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project 2

Filing: Request for compliance review [PDF](attachments are available upon request from Chair, CRP at crp@adb.org)

...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 household income instead of attending school. ...

Complaint > Maple Energy-01/Nuevo Sucre and Canaan

Filing: English

...labor, which consists of any work or service not voluntarily performed that is extracted from an individual under threat of force or penalty. This covers any kind of involuntary or compulsory labor…” The definition of forced labor in the IFC Guidance Note includes work coerced from a person under threat of force or penalty, not just extracted. An example of forced labor contract arrangements in the Guidance Note includes “limitations on freedom of movement” as was the case here. G46-G50. ...

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 virtue of...

Complaint > Food and Agriculture Health and Quality Management Program (CCLIP)

Filing: Request received by Executive Secretariat

...children are poisoned by lower amounts of pesticides than adults. Because of their immature development, they are more susceptible than adults to the effects of poison. Children’s livers and other organs often do not have the capacity to break down certain pesticides. Their immune systems are not fully developed, which heightens the risk of acquiring diseases. Children living in the countryside are in contact with the pesticides used in the agricultural environment that surrounds them; therefore...

Complaint > Salala Rubber Corporation-01/Margibi and Bong

Filing: CAO Complaint - Liberia - Salala Rubber Corporation 01

...child to school costs money.154 For instance, when our children attend public school, we contribute a fee which helps pay for the teacher or materials.155 Many of us also have to pay boarding fees due to the distance that the schools are located from our villages.156 SRC argues that its schools are open to all children, but the reality is that preference is given to employee’s children.157 60. These facts mean that accessing company sch...

Complaint > Lonmin-02/Marikana

Filing: Complaint regarding Lonmin project

...children; four are my biological children, one is an adopted child and one is a nephew. The children go to Rakgatla High School and [REDACTED] crèche. 3. We have electricity in the yard but it often cuts. When the electricity cuts the children do not go to school because they cannot bath in cold water. 4. We live close to a smelter, the smoke fills the air with smog and affects our breathing. I worry about how I will travel if it rains because the dirt roads flood and make it diff...

Complaint > Wilmar Group-01/West Kalimantan

Filing: Procedural irregularities and standards violations in IFC support for Wilmar Trading, July 18, 2007

...Child Labour (March 1998); and Policy on Disclosure of Information (September 1988).12 The same logic that led Project 24644 to be classed as Category B, because there would be wider effects along the supply chain, should have led to Projects 20348 and 25532 being classed as at least Category B if not Category A projects. Indeed IFC staff explicitly noted that there would be supply chain effects from the latter investment guarantee (Project 25532) noting that the investment ‘will facilitate the ...

Complaint > Jute Sector Adjustment Credit Project

Filing: Request for Inspection

...child care, food security, revenue tmnsfer, short-term credit, labor mchange and other basic sources of socio-economic support are dissolved Destruction of the social support system would inevitably bring disaster in the lives of the people. Agriculture, household based craR activities are being run on the basis of the kinshq relation. Considering the notion of dependency of the people, through which their survival mechanism get impetus, we can easily draw conclusion that the destruction of Whq ...

Complaint > IPP4 Al-Manakher Power Project

Filing: Complaint

...Laboratories that are accredited to this international standard ISO /IEC 17025 have demonstrated that they are technically competent and able to produce precise and accurate test and/or calibration data. Laboratory accreditation can only be granted by an accreditation body. Although there are a number of accreditation bodies in the US, customers should choose calibration and testing laboratories accredited. International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) developed a standard for accr...

Complaint > Productive Infrastructure Program - Request II: Caracol Industrial Park (MICI)

Filing: Complaint

...children. Post-displacement, victims have found it difficult to finance their children’s education as a result of the loss of income.234 Unfortunately, as a result of these financial difficulties, it is likely that female children suffered disproportionately a loss of education: victims are likely to have prioritized their male children for education, with female children expected to take on tasks at home.235 Better inclusion of the views of women would likely have raised the priority of food se...

Complaint > Kosovo Power Project (Proposed)

Filing: 78-Request for Inspection (English)

...child mortality, immunization rates and tuberculosis incidence—Kosovo ranks far below neighboring countries, often by a factor of two. Infant and child mortality rates, which are twice as high as in neighboring countries, result from readily preventable problems—perinatal conditions, respiratory diseases and diarrhea. [18] According to 2007 UNDP data, Kosovo had the highest child and infant mortality rates and the lowest life expectancy (69 years) in South East Europe. Environmental problems suc...

Complaint > Andhra Pradesh & Telangana Road Sector Project

Filing: 105-Request for Inspection

...children and children after the Chairman of the world bank. thanking you yours sincerely 1 1) Mr 2) Mr. Unquote 2 From: To: Subject: Date: --Fwd: World record Bribery market created by world bank funds in India @ NH 216 Alignment Monday, December 21, 2015 1:51:54 AM the Inspection Panel World Bank Washington DC U.S.A Dear Sir/Madam, Sub: Human rights violation an...

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

Filing: 37-Request for Inspection Annex 25

...Children's Emergency Fund USAID United States Agency for International Development Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF Allied Democratic Forces (Ugandan insurgents) ADFL Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberalization of the Congo ANR Agence National de Renseignements APNAC African Parliamentarians Network against Corruption BCD Banque de Commerce et de Développement CARPE Central African Regional Program for the Environment CENADEP ...

Complaint > Interagua-01/Guayaquil

Filing: Queja con respecto el proyecto del International Water Services Guayaquil – Interagua C. Ltda. en Guayaquil, Ecuador, 14 de enero de 2008

...Laboratorio de la Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil examinó muestras de agua de las escuelas del sector, y declaró que el agua no era apta para el consumo humano en ninguna de las escuelas. 79 Sin embargo, Interagua mantenía que su servicio no era deficiente y que el agua proveída era realmente potable, señalando a las muestras probadas en su laboratorio que indican un 100% de cumplimiento con normas contractuales. 80 Su implicación en esta declaración es que la contaminación del agua o...

Complaint > Ituango Hydropower Plant

Filing: Request Receipt

...laboraron los grupos intere- to sus posiciones. sados y los grupos de estudio. Estas lecciones se elaboraron en reuniones de uno o dos días con Después de recoger los datos, de programas en el los grupos interesados, con a veces entre 60 y 70 terreno, de recopilación de insumos y análisis, el participantes. La Secretaría también se preocupó grupo de estudio elaboraba un borrador de infor- d...