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US asks ADB to strengthen IR safeguards

Timothy Geithner

In response to a letter from Sen. Patrick Leahy and Congressman Barney Frank , Sec. of State Timothy Geithner made a strong commitment to personaly convey to ADB President Kuroda the need for an improved safeguard policy. Senators Leahy and Congressman Frank express concern that the working draft revision could "exclude thousands of displaced people from coverage by diminishing the scope of its involuntary resettlement policy to include only persons displaced by land acquistiion. The policy also places undue reliance on cash compensation as a means to protect livelihoods of affected persons without ensuring livelihood security through other appropriate means."

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 July 2009 )

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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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