Protecting our environmental resources and promoting social justice
““Immunity from all legal accountability does not further the development goals of international organizations. It simply leads them to be careless.” – Marco Simons, EarthRights General Counsel.” Earth Rights wins at Supreme Court We won! Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in EarthRights’ case, Jam v. International Finance Corporation (IFC), that international organizations like the …
“The IFC’s stated goals are to end poverty and boost shared prosperity and to carry out its development activities “with the intent to ‘do no harm’ to people and the environment.” To fulfill its institutional goals, the IFC has developed a Sustainability Framework, which dictates the conditions of IFC involvement in projects and the obligations …
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