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Africa

June 22, 2015 News Release

World Bank Group: Project Critics Threatened, Harassed, Jailed
Africa

February 23, 2015 News Release

World Bank: Address Ethiopia Findings
Europe/Central Asia

February 2, 2015 News Release

World Bank: No Probe of Link to Abuses in Uzbekistan

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June 22, 2015 Video

Cambodia: Crackdown on Community that Opposed World Bank Project
July 6, 2015 Video

World Bank Group: Project Critics Threatened, Harassed, Jailed

News

July 21, 2016 Letter

Letter to President Jim Kim, World Bank Group
July 21, 2016 Letter

Letter to President Takehiko Nakao, Asian Development Bank
July 21, 2016 News Release

World Bank: Human Rights All But Absent in New Policy
July 14, 2016 News Release

Defending Human Rights in Development
July 6, 2016 News Release

Uzbekistan: Forced Labor Linked to World Bank Corporate Loan
June 24, 2016 News Release

China: New Bank’s Projects Should Respect Rights
May 13, 2016 Commentary

Asian Development Bank’s Money vs. Its Mouth

Jessica Evans
Senior Researcher/Advocate for International Financial Institutions

Published In: Huffington Post
November 20, 2015 Letter

Joint Letter to the World Bank
October 8, 2015 News Release

World Bank: Don’t Slight Rights at Annual Meetings
October 7, 2015 Statements

Human Rights Watch Submission: World Bank’s Second Draft Environmental and Social Framework
August 27, 2015 Statements

Human Rights Watch Submission: World Bank Group Systematic Country Diagnostic for Uzbekistan
August 26, 2015 Statements

Human Rights Watch Submission: World Development Report on Internet for Development

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Reports More Reports

June 22, 2015

At Your Own Risk

Reprisals against Critics of World Bank Group Projects
June 25, 2014

"We Suffered When We Came Here"

Rights Violations Linked to Resettlements for Tajikistan's Rogun Dam
February 3, 2014

"How Can We Survive Here?"

The Impact of Mining on Human Rights in Karamoja, Uganda

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Jessica Evans

Senior Researcher/Advocate for International Financial Institutions evans_jessica

Abandoned in Aleppo; Hungary's Contempt for Media Freedom; Rights Prizes Awarded

Daily Brief

October 11, 2016

Some 250,000 people have been "abandoned" by the siege in Aleppo.

Plus: Hungary has shown its contempt for media freedom; Controlling social media the old-fashioned way in Chechnya; Protesters on trial in Kazakhstan; Top rights prizes for Yazidi activist who escaped ISIS and for imprisoned Uyghur activist in China; Our #FreeThem campaign gets a boost; and acting to #EndChildMarriage.

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