CCHR research shows the serious impacts of land conflict on women’s mental health.

CCHR research shows the serious impacts of land conflict on women’s mental health. Read the full report: https://t.co/idxnJZm07a #WMHD16 pic.twitter.com/pL3vp0NiRL

— CCHR Cambodia (@cchrcambodia) 10. Oktober 2016

Informal workers make up 60.7% of the global workforce. Read why States‘ need to do more to protect them https://t.co/aoZDUZMZpX #99problems pic.twitter.com/hSVjawGfRe

— Maina Kiai (@MainaKiai_UNSR) 10. Oktober 2016

Read our new blog post to mark the five’s 165th day of detention & over 2 mths since launch of #Freethe5KH campaign https://t.co/63vdPqf7Hj pic.twitter.com/ma1pyPl4VQ

— FreeThe5KH (@FreeThe5KH) 10. Oktober 2016

Our #FreeThem campaign this week:
Ilgar Mammadov, jailed in #Azerbaijan for being an alternative political voice https://t.co/tEddOJkyYm pic.twitter.com/D85AVnvkSY

— Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) 10. Oktober 2016

#FreeThem campaign by the HRW this week:
Ilgar Mammadov, jailed in #Azerbaijan for being an alternative voice https://t.co/ow2QTBWle2 https://t.co/hhVXNVvYen

— Rasul Jafarov (@rasuljafarov) 10. Oktober 2016

In #Uzbekistan, A Mother Loses Her Baby As Doctors Forced To Pick Cotton https://t.co/BL1QFrWUsM pic.twitter.com/TNOJPdO26b

— Lotte Leicht (@LotteLeicht1) 10. Oktober 2016

News Lens: World Bank helped fund controversial dam: Report https://t.co/jCMxu01CMp …The report, released last week by a team of rights groups, accuses the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private lending arm, of secretly funding 91 projects across Asia—including three in Cambodia—causing “severe” environmental damage and human rights abuses in breach of its own standards. …

The hundreds of families living in the way of the 400-megawatt dam were not consulted before construction began and are being forced off their land in exchange for compensation that NGOs believe is under market value.

 

Hundreds of families have taken the deal and moved, the alternative being nothing at all. Sarun Sokhom’s family is one of about 100 still refusing to budge.

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“Our ancestors are buried here and their spirits live here,” she said. “If they force us to leave, it’s like they force us to die. We cannot accept it.”

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Ms. Sokhom said the World Bank Group was as responsible as the companies building the dam.

 

The new report also uncovers the IFC’s $15 million stake in the Vietnam Investment Fund II, its $2 million stake in the Dragon Capital Group and its $3 million stake in Sacombank.

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In Ratanakkiri, the report links the IFC to a gold mine concession overlapping the land of hundreds of families who were not consulted beforehand, as required by law, and fear losing their homes without fair compensation.

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The IFC has lent $45 million to Kotak Mahindra Bank, which has lent $2.26 million to Mesco, the mine’s Indian co-owner.

— Bretton Woods Proj. (@brettonwoodspr) 10. Oktober 2016

Environmental crime + #corruption growing at alarming rate – last day to register for our #Brussels event! https://t.co/v9ZEsFXydX pic.twitter.com/Ofo796NMtV

— Transparency Int’l (@anticorruption) 10. Oktober 2016