Complaint > Yacyreta Hydroelectric Project

Filing: Additional Request for Inspection (English)

...changes in the project during implementation.” Rather than change the project to reduce the environmental and social impacts in light of repeated violations of loan agreements and project documents, the Banks changed the project to allow the borrower to delay implementation of these neglected components. 65. Finally, the Banks did not adequately exercise their remedies when the borrower failed to comply with project conditions. (OD 13.05, para 41). In particular, the Banks should have suspe...

Complaint > Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, and Petroleum Environment Capacity Enhancement Project

Filing: 27-Request for Inspection (English)

...climate change. Furthermore, the potential impacts of possible oil accidents have not been analysed. Preparation of the emergency plan in the event of an oil leak was conducted without the slightest public consultation. • The environmental impact study has not undertaken an analysis of the cumulative and overall impacts of the project. For example, it has not taken sufficient account of the operations for exploiting oil in the Ebomé region (Kribi), and no study of the alterna...

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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > 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 > 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...