Indonesian communities file complaint against HeidelbergCement with German government
Community representatives in Indonesia today filed a complaint to the German government accusing HeidelbergCement, one of the world’s largest cement makers, with threatening their livelihoods and water resources and the local ecosystem. The complaint to the German National Contact Point for Responsible Business Conduct alleges that HeidelbergCement’s plans for a limestone mine and cement factory […]
Thai Appeal Court decision on Mitr Phol paves the way for Asia’s first transboundary class action on human rights abuses
The transboundary class action Hoy Mai & Others vs. Mitr Phol Co. Ltd. is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. It was filed under Thai laws permitting a class action to be brought by foreign plaintiffs for abuses committed by a Thai company overseas. The complaint accuses Mitr Phol of complicity in the forcible […]
Two Years After Lao Dam Collapse: The Call for Justice Persists
Two years ago today, at least 70 people died or disappeared and over 7000 were displaced when a dam collapsed in Laos, submerging homes, families and entire villages under a rushing wall of water. On the second anniversary of the disaster, those affected are yet to see justice. Inclusive Development International joins International Rivers and […]
World Bank Watchdog Accepts Complaint Regarding High-Risk Indonesian Zinc Mine in Earthquake Zone
The International Finance Corporation’s independent watchdog has accepted a formal complaint concerning a planned zinc mine in North Sumatra, Indonesia, that will create millions of cubic meters of toxic tailings in one of the world’s highest earthquake risk zones. The watchdog, the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO), has accepted the complaint because an IFC client, Postal […]
World Bank-Backed Rio Tinto-Alcoa Joint Venture Relocates Guinean Village During Covid-19 Lockdown
While communities across Guinea were under Covid-19 shelter-in-place orders, a joint venture owned by mining giants Alcoa and Rio Tinto relocated more than a hundred families to expand its sprawling bauxite mine. Residents of Hamdallaye village in the Boké region of Guinea, who have been seeking redress for the loss of their ancestral farmlands and […]
Vietnamese agribusiness firm HAGL accused of clearing indigenous land in Cambodia | Mongabay
Hoang Anh Gia Lai, a publicly listed Vietnamese real estate, energy, mining and agribusiness giant, is at the center of recent allegations of clearing land in Cambodia that had been earmarked for local indigenous communities. HAGL, as the company is known, is involved in a diverse range of business sectors, but is best-known in Cambodia […]
We Stand with Black Lives Matter
Inclusive Development International stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and all people around the world who are rising up to demand racial, economic and social justice and an end to police brutality. We share the outrage and grief at the hate crimes perpetrated over and over again against Black Americans under the […]
Communities file complaint against World Bank, demanding halt to HeidelbergCement project in Indonesia
Community representatives in Indonesia have filed a complaint against the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector arm of the World Bank, for its indirect financing of a potentially devastating HeidelbergCement limestone mine and cement factory on their territory in Central Java. According to the complaint, which was filed on the eve of the company’s annual shareholders […]
Vietnamese Agribusiness Giant HAGL Destroys Indigenous Lands
Indigenous villages in Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province had waited years for Vietnamese rubber company Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) to finally return their sacred lands, as they had promised to do in a 2015 mediated agreement. Instead, during March, HAGL carried out sweeping clearances of land that had been earmarked for return to the communities through […]
UN calls for firms behind Lao dam collapse to pay as 7,000 survivors await compensation | ASEAN Today
Nearly two years after the collapse of the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy dam in Laos, a group of United Nations (UN) experts is calling on governments and businesses to address ongoing human rights violations experienced by survivors of the disaster. “Thousands of survivors lost everything and continue to face uncertainty and neglect,” the statement from the experts read. […]