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Cambodia evictions continue unchecked
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Hot off the presses! IAP Gaining Ground--our 2011 newsletter
The Guardian UK: Phnom Penh residents score landmark victory over proposed land grab
Cambodian Communities' Resistance to Forced Eviction
IAP Press Release: Bloodshed feared as police move in to evict villages resisting the POSCO steel project in Odisha, India
Times of India: Anti-POSCO unrest spills on to capital's streets
Democratic Voice of Burma: Dam Investors 'Fuelling Violence'
IAP Press Release: WikiLeaks cables confirm concerns of IAP and partners in Bangladesh mine case
Guardian: WikiLeaks cable reveals US diplomats pushed Bangladesh to re-open Phulbari mine
IAP Blogs
Video Blog: Beyond fear: Reflections on standing up to dirty energy in the Mekong
Reflections on Coal Power in Vietnam
Community Activists for Healthy Rivers in Mexico Learn Video Advocacy Techniques
Taking Stock of a BankTrack Training
What we can learn from Temaca
Be That Voice: Joanna's post from the Navajo Nation
Reflections from the Lao PDR: Land and Livelihood
Joanna's Reflections from Cambodia: Launching of the Community Guide
Reflections from Peru: Protection for the elements
Reflections from Peru: Hearing the struggles of small farmers
IAP Updates
IAP's 2012 Summer Research Fellowships
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Hot off the presses! IAP Gaining Ground--our 2011 newsletter
Warnings from Huabal, Perú
Video Blog: Beyond fear: Reflections on standing up to dirty energy in the Mekong
Reflections on Coal Power in Vietnam
Press Release: Indigenous Amazonian Communities in Peru End Negotiations with Maple Energy over Six Oil Spills
Azerbaijan: Halt Illegal House Demolitions, Forced Evictions
Azerbaijan: Government Demolishes Human Rights Groups’ Offices
Press Release: Indigenous Organizations Demand Immediate Response and Remediation for Oil Spill in the Peruvian Amazon
News Articles
Phulbari Coal Project: Protest & shareholder activism in London
Amnesty International condemns massive forced evictions across the African continent
Bolivian President Evo Morales Suspends Amazon Road Project
Peru - Nativos Denuncian Nuevo Derrame de Petróleo
A Voice Amidst Silence: The Badin Floods
Press Release: Indigenous Amazonian Communities in Peru End Negotiations with Maple Energy over Six Oil Spills
Azerbaijan: Halt Illegal House Demolitions, Forced Evictions
Azerbaijan: Government Demolishes Human Rights Groups’ Offices
Press Release: Indigenous Organizations Demand Immediate Response and Remediation for Oil Spill in the Peruvian Amazon
Guardian: Biofuels land grab in Kenya's Tana Delta fuels talk of war
Africa
New York Times: For Some Bushmen, a Homeland Worth the Fight
Nigeria slum clearance could leave 200,000 'homeless'
Ghana News Agency: Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) expresses concern about demolition exercise
Amnesty International: Egyptian families at risk of forced evictions over road project
Endorois Win Landmark Land Judgement Against Kenyan Government
OHCHR reports on Kampala Declaration
Forced evictions a pandemic in Africa
UNHCR News: African Union hosts special summit on the forcibly displaced
Mail & Guardian: Violent mass evictions in Angola's capital, Luanda
'Tourism is a curse to us'
Asia
The Guardian UK: Phnom Penh residents score landmark victory over proposed land grab
Cambodian Communities' Resistance to Forced Eviction
IAP Press Release: Bloodshed feared as police move in to evict villages resisting the POSCO steel project in Odisha, India
Times of India: Anti-POSCO unrest spills on to capital's streets
Energy at What Cost? Protests Against Forced Eviction from US-Backed Coal Mine Continue in Bangladesh
ANALYSIS-China pumps up Cambodia economy, but at what cost?
Big Coal WikiLeaks Emergency in Bangladesh: Does Obama Support Removal of 100,000 Villagers?
Democratic Voice of Burma: Dam Investors 'Fuelling Violence'
IAP Press Release: WikiLeaks cables confirm concerns of IAP and partners in Bangladesh mine case
Guardian: WikiLeaks cable reveals US diplomats pushed Bangladesh to re-open Phulbari mine
Cambodia
Cambodia evictions continue unchecked
The Guardian UK: Phnom Penh residents score landmark victory over proposed land grab
Cambodian Communities' Resistance to Forced Eviction
ANALYSIS-China pumps up Cambodia economy, but at what cost?
World Bank Acknowledges Mismanagement
The Deaths of Hut Heap and Hut Hoeub: Gone for good to fetch a pail of water
Time Magazine: Cambodian army open for corporate sponsors
Global Post: Cambodia Pushes out the Poor
The Phnom Penh Post: Progress Slow at Eviction Site
Cambodians facing largest forced displacement since Khmer Rouge era
China
Rural communities pay price of China's boom
Global Times: Forced Evictions and Demolition Must Stop
UN Protesters Highlight China's Forced Eviction Problem
New York Times: Trampled in a Land Rush, Chinese Resist
Opposing China’s Shwe project in Burma
NY Times Op-Ed on land-grabbing in China: A Women Burns
AFP: One dead, scores injured in China land brawl
Beijing Review: Defending Home
BBC News: Beijing resident sets himself on fire to protest eviction
Alibaba.com: Protesters call for suspension of China-Myanmar pipeline venture
India
IAP Press Release: Bloodshed feared as police move in to evict villages resisting the POSCO steel project in Odisha, India
Times of India: Anti-POSCO unrest spills on to capital's streets
Resistance to Jaitapur Nuclear Plant Grows in India
Niyamgiri, You are Still Alive
Australia Network News: Indian court to hear Commonwealth Games housing claims
Commonwealth Games Leave 250,000 Homeless
The Guardian: India blocks Vedanta mine on Dongria-Kondh tribe's sacred hill
BBC: Banished from Delhi for Commonwealth Games
New York Times: Right-to-Know Law Gives India's Poor a Lever
Indian Express: Orissa anti-eviction protest turns violent, 1 killed in ‘police firing’
Asian Development Bank
NY Times: Cambodia Take to the Roads in Building Spree
India pays penalty for not utilising loans from lending agencies
Earth Times: Asian Development Bank to set up 3-billion-dollar emergency fund
African Press International: Asia: Capital boost will not help the poor
Associated Press: Asia Urged to Rethink Growth Policies Amid Crisis
The Washington Post: ADB back to drawing board as slump hits poor
WSJ: Corruption at the ADB: Bank Shields Offenders from Bad Publicity
REUTERS NEWS: ADB under pressure on policy as it seeks funds
ADB hit by skills shortage
Business Mirror: ADB staff, CSOs hit draft safeguards
Australia & Pacific
ClimateWire: How the World Bank Let 'Deal Making' Torch the Rainforests
The Australian: Bereft of their own resources
Europe
Guardian: WikiLeaks cable reveals US diplomats pushed Bangladesh to re-open Phulbari mine
New York Times: Portugal Gives Itself a Clean-Energy Makeover
Belgrade authorities urged to halt forced eviction of 300 Roma families
The Diplomat Bucharest: Locals lose as billion dollar gold mine stays in limbo
Campaigners demand UK coal company withdraw support for destructive Bangladeshi mine
U.K. bank sells shares in controversial coal mining company
North America
Guardian: WikiLeaks cable reveals US diplomats pushed Bangladesh to re-open Phulbari mine
NY Times: Tenants Evicted by the MTA ask "Move Where?"
House Chairs Warn President of Dangers of Signing Statements
Colombia Reports: Mining Company Illegally Exploits Sacred Land
NY Times: U.S. Deportee Brings Street Dance to Street Boys of Cambodia
G20 Statement on Global Financial Crisis
Linking the Global and US climate justice movements
South & Central America
Warnings from Huabal, Perú
Inambari Dam in the Peruvian Amazon Cancelled for Now
Who Stands for the Amazon?
24 native languages in Colombia at risk of extinction
The Guardian: Peru to expel British 'Tarzan agitator' Paul McAuley
BBC News: Peru leader rejects indigenous land rights law
New York Times: Tribes of Amazon Find an Ally Out of ‘Avatar’
Peru tribes file IFC complaint over Maple pollution
IAP Assists Indigenous Peruvian Communities to File World Bank Complaint about Maple Oil Project
BRAZIL: Development Bank Funds Destructive Projects, Say Activists
World Bank / IMF
GMA News TV: Groups seek stronger World Bank investment standards to protect the poor
ClimateWire: How the World Bank Let 'Deal Making' Torch the Rainforests
NY Times: Obama’s Embrace of a Bush Tactic Riles Congress
House Chairs Warn President of Dangers of Signing Statements
The Observer: Can the IMF now feed the world?
Washington Post: IMF emerges from G-20 Summit with vastly redefined & enhanced mission
Balkan Insight: World Bank Says Albania Project Mistakes Appalling
Fox News: World Bank Spent More than a Year Covering Up Destruction of Albanian Village
Balkan Insight: World Bank Demolished Albania Village
World Bank Unfit To Manage Climate Funds
Pressroom
Who Stands for the Amazon?
Terre Rouge, a slide show by John Vink
Tools and Resources
Resources for using Video as an Advocacy Tool
IAP Publications
Know Your Rights!
A Citizens Guide to the World Bank Inspection Panel
UN Declaration on the Right to Development
Unpacking the ADB: A Guide to Understanding the Asian Development Bank
Tools for Activists: An Information and Advocacy Guide to the World Bank Group
Dams, Rivers and Rights: An Action Guide for Communities Affected by Dams
Photo & Video Gallery
Warnings from Huabal, Perú
Watch We Can't Eat Money, the trailer for IAP's Peru River Defenders Project
Niyamgiri, You are Still Alive
Left Bank Outfall Drainage Project
Rivers for Life Conference in Temacapulin, Mexico
UN Protesters Highlight China's Forced Eviction Problem
Economic Land Concession in Cambodia
Indigenous Communities in Peru Complain to World Bank about Maple Oil Project
Agpayso a Balitok
Resisting large dams in Arunachal Pradesh
IAP Photo Slide Shows
Hydropower and Daily Life in Himachal Pradesh
A Portrait of Two Cambodian Communities Facing Eviction
Peru: Maple Project
Papua New Guinea: Oil Palm and the World Bank
Through the Lens in Peru
India and Thailand
Narmada
Cambodia
Rivers for Life Participant-Produced Videos
Viva Temaca, Viva!
Award of Courage to Residents of Temaca
Lake Turkana Celebration
The Salween Dam from My Eyes
VAW Graduate Videos
Left Bank Outfall Drainage Project
Economic Land Concession in Cambodia
Agpayso a Balitok
Resisting large dams in Arunachal Pradesh
Damn the Dam
Power of Unity (Part 1 of 3)
Power of Unity (Part 2 of 3)
Power of Unity (Part 3 of 3)
Reality of ADB Safeguards in Sri Lanka
"Like you, we have rights too" - Young Indigenous Peoples
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Recommended Reading
What we do
Global Policy
IFC Policy Review
Human Rights Delegation to IFC
Shipibo community representatives demand policy change from the IFC
Questions & Answers: Human Rights & the IFC
Communities and CSOs make their voices heard at IFC's Manila Consultation
IAP Case Studies on Human Rights Impacts of IFC Projects
IFC Safeguard Policies Review, 2006
Photo Gallery: Peru
Making ADB policies work for justice
Civil society for accountable ADB safeguard policies
Other Policy Initiatives
CSOs submit comments on AfDB's Accountability Mechanism
ADB Energy Policy
EBRD Accountability Mechanism Review
EBRD Accountability Mechanism Review
World Bank Disclosure Policy Review
IAP comments on changes to World Bank disclosure policy
World Bank launches Disclosure Policy Review
World Bank Inspection Panel
Composition of the World Bank Inspection Panel
History of the World Bank Inspection Panel
Project Advocacy
Cambodia Airports Project, Cambodia

Maple Energy Project, Peru
Phulbari Coal Mine, Bangladesh
Civil society organizations respond to GCM statement to JCHR
Open letter to investors in the Phulbari coal project
Phulbari Coal Mine, Bangladesh
Highway One, Cambodia
NTPC, Singrauli, India
The Story of Displacement in Singrauli
Research & Popular Education
People's Guide
Join IAP and partners for the launch of the Cambodia Community Guide--Oct 26th!
Briefing Series on Forced Displacement
Arts & Media
Democratizing development requires democratizing access to media
Photo Advocacy
IAP Photo Slide Shows
Postcard Advocacy Campaign
Video Advocacy
Collaborative Video Advocacy Trainings
River Defenders Video Project
Asia Video Advocacy Project
Resources for using Video as an Advocacy Tool
Who we are
About IAP
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Highway One, Cambodia
IFC Performance Standards
NTPC, Singrauli, India
World Bank Inspection Panel
Staff
Jocelyn Fong, Program Intern
Roni Krouzman, Fundraising and Management Consultant
Alex B., Summer Research Fellow 2011
Nicole Barden, Summer Research Fellow 2011
Rachel Humphrey, Executive Coach and Management Consultant
Steve Fisher, Video Program Intern
Jeff Conant, Consultant for Popular Education Materials
Joanna Levitt, Executive Director
Emily Joiner, Policy Program Coordinator
Molly Clinehens, Video Advocacy Consultant
Former Staff & Interns
Katherine Cook, Program Intern, Summer 2011
Kaitlin Chandler, Program Intern
Kimberly Pikul, Research Fellow, Spring 2011
Kathy Ferguson, Operations Coordinator 2010-2011
Madeleine Hamlin, Summer 2010 Program Intern
Theresa Funke, Intern, Spring 2010
Katherine Conchada, Intern, 2010
Mike Burstein, Legal Advocacy Coordinator, 2008-2009
Ryan Cohen, IAP Intern, 2009
Jennifer Kalafut, Co-Director, 2007-2010
IAP Fellows
Alex B., Summer Research Fellow 2011
Nicole Barden, Summer Research Fellow 2011
Kimberly Pikul, Research Fellow, Spring 2011
Falguni Vora, Research Fellow 2010-2011
Gigi Mao, Summer Research Fellow 2010
Michelle Arevalo-Carpenter, Summer Research Fellow 2009
Anthony Fontes, Summer Research Fellow 2008
Kate Hoshour, Senior Research Fellow & Campaign Coordinator
Emily Joiner, Summer Research Fellow 2009
Nina Robertson, Summer Research Fellow 2007
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Safeguard Policies
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Unjust Displacement
Unjust Displacement is a Global Crisis
Displacement means...
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Destructive Finance
Development Finance Must Not Destroy Lives and Land
Development Finance Must Not Destroy Lives and Land
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