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  • 25 September, 2024

    34 Civil Society Organizations submit joint recommendations on how to strengthen AIIB’s Project-Affected People’s Mechanism

    By Radhika Goyal, Accountability Counsel
    A version of this blog was also published in the AIIB Observer Vol. 2 As the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank gather for their annual meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, we call on the Bank to strengthen its Project-Affected People’s Mechanism (PPM) and reaffirm the importance of…
  • 6 September, 2024

    Social Risks of MDB-backed Projects Going Unnoticed

    By Emmy Hawker, ESG Investor
    Lack of community consultation and accountability frameworks undermining efforts to fund a just transition, campaigners argue.
  • 3 September, 2024

    New Export Feature to Download Complaint Data

    By Breanna Burke and Esha Thapa, Accountability Counsel
    Experience faster, more reliable data exports on the Console with our new asynchronous export feature – optimized for large volumes of data and seamless analysis.
  • 28 August, 2024

    Rio Tinto-linked mine still not fulfilling promises to Mongolian herders

    By Sonam Lama Hyolmo, Mongabay
    Today, compliance researchers and herders say two-thirds of the mine’s commitments are complete and or in progress, but complain of slow progress with the remainder, including the all-important issue of access to clean water.
  • 23 August, 2024

    The Cost of Rio Tinto Profits

    By Julio Castor Achmadi, Accountability Counsel
    Investors must pay attention to the mining major’s negative social and environmental impacts, argues Julio Castor Achmadi, Communities Associate at Accountability Counsel.

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