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Downing and Scudder criticize proposed Update of ADB resettlement policy

Management of the Asian Development Bank is proposing an update to its 1995 involuntary resettlement policy. Ted Downing and Ted Scudder sent an expert opinion to the ADB Board of Director stating the social policy upgrade (SPU) would increase impoverishment. Incredibly, the ADB policy unit decided NOT to publish or respond to these comments-response matrix. This means the Downing-Scudder concerns may not be addressed in the new consultation. Now the letter is really worth reviewing - as it obviously hit a sensitive nerve in the policy.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 March 2010 )

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Cote d'Ivoire:Protest by Social Scientists

A large group of West Africa, Europe, and North American academics and social scientists, many of whom are students of population displacement, have signed onto an editorial written and circulated by a group of West African academics and social scientists. They argue that the former President of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, is abusively clinging to power after having blatantly tried to falsifiy the recent elections. The point out that international bodies have confirmed that the opposition candidate, Alassane Ouattara, has defeated Gbagbo. Nonetheless, the Gbagbo and his military supporters prevent the access to power of the newly-elected President. The likelihood of renewed violent conflict, civil war, and bloodshed in Cote d'Ivoire is high and increasing, involving obvious risks of renewed massive uprooting and population displacement.

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