Causing major harms through development projects

"World Bank-funded projects have also continually been found to be in direct, serious violation of international human rights standards. Major recurring issues include mass evictions and the forced displacement of peoples and communities for major infrastructure and agricultural projects (see Observer Spring 2015), violations of the rights of indigenous and forest peoples, targeting of human rights defenders, triggering local food insecurity, and serious labour rights violations, such as child and forced labour reportedly being used in Bank-funded projects (see Observer Winter 2016). The IFC has also been shown on several occasions to have invested in companies that avoid or evade taxes (see Observer Autumn 2016). More recently, the Bank has also acknowledged that its projects can create an environment that can foster gender-based violence, including sexual abuse and the spread of HIV/AIDS (see Observer Spring 2017).

"To safeguard against risks like these, the World Bank launched its revised Environmental and Social Framework in 2018, although it applies only to its project lending and not to its DPF.

"Many in civil society remain unconvinced that the safeguards are fit for purpose if the Bank is to deliver on its mandate to implement policies that benefit the poorest, especially as the Bank is set to focus on more complex and difficult environments from 2018."

#ForcedRelocation #ForcedDisplacement #HumanRightsViolations #EnvironmentalDegradation #IndigenousPeoples #ForestPeoples #SaveTheForests #Exploitation #CorporateColonialism
#IMFLoanSharks #WorldBank #GenderBasedViolence #ManCamps

@nus

>> #Zionism is predicated on hate

That is #projection and #HolocaustEnvy .

Zionism is a movement to find home for #Jews who faced #ForcedDisplacement MULTIPLE times https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111494007586354401

>> assuming people deserve mistreatment

NO, people don’t deserve mistreatment. But people also don’t deserve to be targets of surprise rocket launches and suicide bombings on civilians.

>> Displacing people doesn't make you righteous

It doesn’t. #Displacement is not uniquely Palestinian

#EcstasyAndAmnesia #GazaStrip

[How meaning of “Nakba” evolved]

As time passed, memories of that defeat evolved and the #Nakba became not an #Arab event but a #Palestinian one, and not a humiliating defeat—“seven Arab states declare war on #Zionism in #Palestine [and] stop impotent before it” is how it is described on the first page of #Zureiq’s book—but rather the story of shame and #forcedDisplacement.

#Displacement #ForcedDisplacement #RepeatedDisplacement

“People have been #displaced multiple times and there are few places left … to move to.”

Where have I heard this before?

@me_the_fl00f @jens @Bam @siderea

Just came across this toot on my timeline, and damn, if it doesn’t sound like #forcedDisplacement due to #persecution by #hardliners https://infosec.exchange/@smanzo/111580030142118260

This isn’t to trivialize the history of what happened to certain groups. Treat this as a #politicalAllegory for what it’s worth

@smanzo