People’s Movements to Challenge AIIB’s Infrastructure Financing: Over 80 CSOs and Social Movements to Organize Events Parallel to AIIB’s AGM in Mumbai

Press Note | May 16, 2018  People’s Movements to Challenge AIIB’s Infrastructure Financing: Over 80 CSOs and Social Movements to Organize Events Parallel to AIIB’s AGM in Mumbai Raising the serious issues of social and environmental costs in infrastructure projects, its economic burden on public and financial non-viability, Civil Society Organisations and social movements are set to  organize a three day …

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Peoples Convention on Infrastructure Financing: Concept Note

Peoples’ Convention on Infrastructure Financing A response to AIIB Annual Meeting June 21-23, Mumbai, India Introduction: Peoples Convention on Infrastructure Financing – A response to AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) Annual Meeting is the coming together of various groups working towards just and equitable society threatened by the massive infrastructure push resulting in displacement and dispossession …

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Peoples’ Convention on Infrastructure Financing: A Peoples’ response to AIIB Annual Meeting June 21-23, 2018

INVITATION The Third Annual Governors Meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank [AIIB] will be held in Mumbai, India from 24-25 June 2018. This two-year-old multilateral bank is investing in all major sectors, including energy, without robust policies on environmental-social safeguards, transparent public disclosure and an accountability/complaint handling mechanism. Out of the total 24 projects, it …

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Gujarat groups protest the exclusion of urban poor and civil society groups from AIIB lead up the ​seminar on urban development in Ahmedabad

PRESS RELEASE April 18, 2018 Gujarat groups protest the exclusion of urban poor and civil society groups from AIIB lead up the seminar on urban development in Ahmedabad. Social Movements to hold a parallel conference in Mumbai along with Asian Infrastructure Bank 3rdAnnual Governors Meeting. Demands reorienting of visions from existing Multilateral development Banks towards …

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