Mongabay, Hans Nicholas Jong, 14 June 2023 This level of U.N. engagement is “unprecedented,” said Wawa Wang, director of the NGO Just Finance International. Yet despite this, she said, “the AIIB and ITDC have yet to take decisive action to release key project documentation, address the root causes of human rights violations, and provide remedy… Continue reading Mongabay: Indonesia’s Mandalika megaproject still trampling on Indigenous community’s rights: Report
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Information (DK): For ten years, Serbia has been in the EU’s waiting room, while China is making its mark on the country – and its environment
The sound of explosions, heavy dust in the air and polluted rivers plague the residents of the Serbian mining town of Bor, where a Chinese company bought the mine in 2018. The cooperation between the EU candidate country Serbia and China has intensified in recent years, but there are both environmental and political risks with the Chinese projects – and growing local opposition
Mongabay: U.N., rights groups flag potential violations in $3b Indonesian tourism project
By providing core finance for the project, AIIB must take responsibility for its complicity in bankrolling the Mandalika project, where its client and project proponents have been implicated in inflicting human rights violations and fueling land conflicts.