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In 2016, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) celebrates 25 years of promoting and protecting human rights. To commemorate this milestone, FORUM-ASIA created ...

After the 2011 Arab uprisings the IMF signalled change to its longstanding policies to focus more on inclusive growth and social inclusion. The ...

Conscience International (CI-The Gambia) has recently published a report on the “CSO Outreach Workshop on Accountability" in Banjul, which was co-facilitated...

Hakijami, ISER and GI-ESCR, together with allies, expressed their concerns about the World Bank’s expressed support for the development of a multinational chain of low-fee profit-making private primary schools 

 The EU Ombudsperson assessed a complaint filed by FIDH and VCHR following the European Commission’s refusal to take human rights into account in negotiations for trade and investment agreements with Vietnam

New report by several NGOs says that the IFC is failing to perform due diligence and to identify or effectively manage risk in many of its investments in third-party lenders 

Bretton Woods Project published an analysis of the key issues and developments affecting the World Bank and IMF in 2014

A newly-published CESR factsheet illustrates the role Spain’s fiscal austerity policies have played in driving poverty and inequality in the country

ProDESC is pleased to announce that communal landowners of La Sierrita are exempt from rent payment

The ETO Consortium released a new publication series to provide guidance on how to apply extraterritorial obligations

Inclusive Development International, among others, published the report "Land, Housing and Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Draft World Bank Environmental & Social Framework" 

The Declaration resulted from a roundtable convened by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development