My short blog on much-needed reforms to accountability at the Asian Development Bank
16.05.2025 10:14
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My short blog on much-needed reforms to accountability at the Asian Development Bank
“The IFC should use this moment to learn the lessons from its past mistakes, and take on board the feedback from communities affected by IFC projects, who have suffered human rights abuses or had their livelihoods destroyed when safeguards have failed to protect them.” —
@kategeary.bsky.social
🚨 The International Finance Corporation has just this week launched a long-awaited review of its Sustainability Framework, a set of hugely important environmental and social safeguards
This is a “generational opportunity” for more sustainable global finance
Read more: re-course.org/newsupdates/...
Purple cloth banner with gold fringe and gold lettering
"Lifting as we climb"
Banner showing the motto of the most prominent organization of the African-American Women's Suffrage Movement, which formed in 1896 #WomensArt #Monday
Photo featuring three horse sculptures grouped together on the wet sand of a beach under a blue sky, each horse is created with pieces of drift wood and stands facing right
Life size driftwood horse sculptures by UK sculptor Heather Jansch #WomensArt
Harebells, 2017 by Evi Tihemets, Estonian printmaker #WomensArt #April
Artwork with stylised images of two white femake figures adorned with flower motifs and organic lines in an art nouveau style
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh’s Art Nouveau gesso panel ‘The White Rose and the Red Rose’ (detail), 1902 #WomensArt
Incredibly detailed, insightful, enlightening coverage of this important case - thank you Sebastian!
🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE
🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent.
🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room.
🧵 🔽 thread below
Brilliant!! Thanks for the light relief!
Painted artwork of pink poppy blossoms and poppy seed heads on long green stems against a pale yellow background
Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart
Digital graphic with a deep blue background, featuring an image of Spock in a round frame edged with purple and light blue. Text in bright purple reads "What would Spock say?" The main text advocates for Long Covid research funding, listed above hashtags #LongCovidAwareness, #VoiceOfReason, #Postcards4LC, and #FundLongCovid. A hand icon is in the upper right corner.
💌 Some wise souls have joined us for #LongCovidAwarenessDay
Agreeing we urgently need funding for:
⭐ biomarkers
⭐ pathophysiology
⭐ treatments
@ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social
@england.nhs.uk
@nihr.bsky.social
#Postcards4LC
This is such a brilliant article: we know what causes long COVID and we know how to treat it - but where is the urgency to invest in the clinical trials needed?
Painting filled with images of different flowers, including foxgloves and irises and with a standing blackbird in the forground
Sarah Bowman
'White Iris and Blackbird'
Contemporary painter #WomensArt
Really helpful guide for healthy allies, friends and family about how to help people with long Covid in your life. www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/how-to-... by @longcovidadvoc.bsky.social
Stained glass artwork created in sections of glass with led borders yet with a single pictorial image of a central hare sitting amongst tall green grasses
Ann Sotheran, contemporary UK Stained Glass artist #WomensArt
Welcome to WomensArtBlueSky !
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As 2024 draws to a close, @re-course.org looks back on a busy but inspiring year, working to hold public finance accountable to people and the planet
Huge thanks to our partners, funders, colleagues past and present, and our allies around the world ✊
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#2024Wrapped 👇📺
Read how development banks EBRD, IFC and ADB are failing victims of #HumanRights violations at #IndoramaAgro in #Uzbekistan by ignoring reports of NGOs and failing to respond to retaliations. #FinancingRepression
Providing funding to a repressive regime to construct the world's highest dam is clearly a recipe for disaster.
Yet, today the #WorldBank will vote on the #Rogun dam in #Tajikistan, despite it risks displacing +60,000 ppl.
Read more in this op-ed for @aljazeera.com 👇https://bit.ly/AJoped
The image shows 3 baubles. One is fairly gaudy, one has a big question mark in it, and one contains a very blurry photo. The caption reads "Guess who's #ThereForME!" Here's a clue for alt-texters: Doctor
As promised, here's a clue for tomorrow's #ThereForMEAdventCalendar. Can you guess who it is?
This is such a brilliant thread about our government in denial about COVID and Long COVID
What kind of denial ridden ignorance can look at this graph and think that this isn't caused by Covid?
Not a single mention of Long Covid in the Get Britain Working White Paper.
Govt still ignoring NHS staff & frontline workers, who put their lives on the line during the pandemic, now suffering with the condition.
We urgently need to recognise Long Covid as an occupational disease.
My alma mater looking very pretty in the snow this week
Print featuring a bird on a branch, side view, facing left with head and tail feathers pointing upwards, and behind branches with red round berries are against a white backdrop
'Wren In Winter' by UK printmaker Sarah Bays