International organizations welcome World Bank Ombudman’s initiative to scrutinize investment project in Bajo Aguán, Honduras
International organizations welcome the World Bank Ombudsman´s initiative to scrutinize an investment project of the International Finance Corporation due to allegations of human rights violations of peasant communities in the Lower Aguán valley, Honduras, and demand immediate halt to the project.
The statement has been sent today to the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO)of the World Bank Group and was signed by the following 17 organizations and networks: APRODEV (Association of World Council of Churches-related Development Organizations); Carbon Market Watch; CIFCA (Copenhagen Initiative for Central America and Mexico); FESPAD (Fundación de Estudios para la Aplicación del Derecho, El Salvador); FIAN International; FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights); Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy; HIC (Habitat Internacional Coalition); Honduras Forum Schweiz; Latin America Working Group (LAWG); La Vía Campesina; Lutheran World Federation, Central America Program; MISEREOR; OXFAM; PIDHDD (Inter-American Platform for Human Rights, Democracy and Development); Rel-UITA (Latin American Office of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, and Tobacco Workers, IUF); and TROCAIRE.