Nina Lesikhina
@ninales.bsky.social
Environment and human rights defender and policy officer at CEE Bankwatch Network @ceebankwatch.bsky.social
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Today the EBRD Annual Meeting kicks off in London!
Our Coalition members @uzbekforum.bsky.social @ceebankwatch.bsky.social @accountcounsel.bsky.social & many others will be there at #EBRDAM to demand:
✊ respect for human rights
🌻 a truly just energy transition
🔎 stronger accountability
#EBRDAM25
Our Coalition members @uzbekforum.bsky.social @ceebankwatch.bsky.social @accountcounsel.bsky.social & many others will be there at #EBRDAM to demand:
✊ respect for human rights
🌻 a truly just energy transition
🔎 stronger accountability
#EBRDAM25
May 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Today the EBRD Annual Meeting kicks off in London!
Our Coalition members @uzbekforum.bsky.social @ceebankwatch.bsky.social @accountcounsel.bsky.social & many others will be there at #EBRDAM to demand:
✊ respect for human rights
🌻 a truly just energy transition
🔎 stronger accountability
#EBRDAM25
Our Coalition members @uzbekforum.bsky.social @ceebankwatch.bsky.social @accountcounsel.bsky.social & many others will be there at #EBRDAM to demand:
✊ respect for human rights
🌻 a truly just energy transition
🔎 stronger accountability
#EBRDAM25
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Today, @ebrd.bsky.social will vote on another new loan to #Indorama while environmental & social safeguards at Indorama Agro #cotton project in #Uzbekistan are outstanding: destroyed livelihoods, unpaid wages & retaliations. We demand accountability, not rewards for non-compliance!
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Joint statement: Urgent Call on the IFC and the EBRD for Remedy and Accountability at Indorama Agro, Uzbekistan | Uzbek Forum for Human Rights
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May 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Today, @ebrd.bsky.social will vote on another new loan to #Indorama while environmental & social safeguards at Indorama Agro #cotton project in #Uzbekistan are outstanding: destroyed livelihoods, unpaid wages & retaliations. We demand accountability, not rewards for non-compliance!
bit.ly/41WbjiX
bit.ly/41WbjiX
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Public finance can help achieve the #GlobalGoals, eradicate hunger & poverty, and fight for #GenderEquality & the #climate.
❓@ec.europa.eu, will you support reforms on
✅ Sovereign #debt
✅ #UNTaxConvention
✅ Development cooperation?
#FfD4
ow.ly/n0nx50VJyam
cc. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
❓@ec.europa.eu, will you support reforms on
✅ Sovereign #debt
✅ #UNTaxConvention
✅ Development cooperation?
#FfD4
ow.ly/n0nx50VJyam
cc. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
April 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Public finance can help achieve the #GlobalGoals, eradicate hunger & poverty, and fight for #GenderEquality & the #climate.
❓@ec.europa.eu, will you support reforms on
✅ Sovereign #debt
✅ #UNTaxConvention
✅ Development cooperation?
#FfD4
ow.ly/n0nx50VJyam
cc. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
❓@ec.europa.eu, will you support reforms on
✅ Sovereign #debt
✅ #UNTaxConvention
✅ Development cooperation?
#FfD4
ow.ly/n0nx50VJyam
cc. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Happy to share this piece ahead of the #EBRDam to join a conversation on impact measurement and reporting by @ebrd.bsky.social and other MDBs. Civic and citizen engagement must be part of it! #SDG16 #StandUpForHumanRights #Democracy
🔎How can the @ebrd.bsky.social gauge the effectiveness of its stakeholder engagement without any data?
In her briefing for the #EBRDam, @ninales.bsky.social argues that EBRD monitoring and reporting must improve to achieve sustainable development outcomes!
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In her briefing for the #EBRDam, @ninales.bsky.social argues that EBRD monitoring and reporting must improve to achieve sustainable development outcomes!
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May 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Happy to share this piece ahead of the #EBRDam to join a conversation on impact measurement and reporting by @ebrd.bsky.social and other MDBs. Civic and citizen engagement must be part of it! #SDG16 #StandUpForHumanRights #Democracy
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In April, 90 CSOs signed a joint statement calling on @ebrd.bsky.social & @ifcorg.bsky.social which financed #cotton producer Indorama Agro in #Uzbekistan to take urgent & concrete action to remedy severe harms inflicted on workers:
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Can Uzbek Cotton Shake Off Its Forced Labor Problem?
Between what labor groups say is the Uzbek government's continued interference and the loss of critical funding to fight human rights violations, what appeared like a new chapter for the Central Asian...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
In April, 90 CSOs signed a joint statement calling on @ebrd.bsky.social & @ifcorg.bsky.social which financed #cotton producer Indorama Agro in #Uzbekistan to take urgent & concrete action to remedy severe harms inflicted on workers:
bit.ly/3Ygsn0R
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bit.ly/3Ygsn0R
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International Union of Foodworkers: "These workers have struggled for years for the right to form their own independent #TradeUnion, but all attempts were stifled by #IndoramaAgro management, while @ifcorg.bsky.social & @ebrd.bsky.social continuously ignored #HumanRights violations."
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Uzbekistan: IUF joins a petition calling for justice for Indorama Agro workers - IUF
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April 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
International Union of Foodworkers: "These workers have struggled for years for the right to form their own independent #TradeUnion, but all attempts were stifled by #IndoramaAgro management, while @ifcorg.bsky.social & @ebrd.bsky.social continuously ignored #HumanRights violations."
bit.ly/42iuAtS
bit.ly/42iuAtS
Nearly 90 civil society organizations from around the world, incl. @ceebankwatch.bsky.social, have expressed solidarity with Uzbek farmers and workers affected by dev. investments and joined the urgent call on the @ebrd.bsky.social and IFC to remedy the harm caused. These voices cannot be ignored!
In January #IndoramaAgro - one of the largest #cotton companies in #Uzbekistan - prepaid its loans to IFC & EBRD (tot. $130 million), while serious labor and human rights abuses remain unaddressed.
Abuses included
- #LandGrabbing
- #LabourRights violations
- #Reprisals
- #Environmental degradation
Abuses included
- #LandGrabbing
- #LabourRights violations
- #Reprisals
- #Environmental degradation
April 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Nearly 90 civil society organizations from around the world, incl. @ceebankwatch.bsky.social, have expressed solidarity with Uzbek farmers and workers affected by dev. investments and joined the urgent call on the @ebrd.bsky.social and IFC to remedy the harm caused. These voices cannot be ignored!
As the EU-Central Asia Summit begins in #Uzbekistan today, we urge the #EBRD and its European shareholders to uphold human rights in the country and ensure remedy for harm caused by its investments.
For years, workers, farmers & monitors have faced serious violations at #IndoramaAgro #cotton operations in #Uzbekistan.
They deserve #justice.
Join us & call on @ifcorg.bsky.social & @ebrd.bsky.social to ensure #remedy to affected people!
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They deserve #justice.
Join us & call on @ifcorg.bsky.social & @ebrd.bsky.social to ensure #remedy to affected people!
bankwatch.org/wp-content/u...
April 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
As the EU-Central Asia Summit begins in #Uzbekistan today, we urge the #EBRD and its European shareholders to uphold human rights in the country and ensure remedy for harm caused by its investments.
Since 2019, we’ve worked with affected communities to push for stronger #HumanRights safeguards in #EBRD investments. Thanks to Bankwatch colleagues & civil society partners, EBRD’s new E&S policy makes progress, but gaps remain. We’ll keep advocating for real accountability & development impact!
The @ebrd.bsky.social recently updated its policies. How will they protect communities?
@ninales.bsky.social has analysed to what extent the new standards advance transparency, human rights due diligence, stakeholder engagement and accountability.
Read the story here: bankwatch.org/story/the-eb...
@ninales.bsky.social has analysed to what extent the new standards advance transparency, human rights due diligence, stakeholder engagement and accountability.
Read the story here: bankwatch.org/story/the-eb...
March 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Since 2019, we’ve worked with affected communities to push for stronger #HumanRights safeguards in #EBRD investments. Thanks to Bankwatch colleagues & civil society partners, EBRD’s new E&S policy makes progress, but gaps remain. We’ll keep advocating for real accountability & development impact!
I was pleased to contribute to this report by @forusinternational.bsky.social, sharing @ceebankwatch.bsky.social experience with @ebrd.bsky.social. We urge development banks at #FiCS2025 to enhance CSO & community engagement required to advance #SDGs.
www.forus-international.org/en/pdf-detai...
www.forus-international.org/en/pdf-detai...
February 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I was pleased to contribute to this report by @forusinternational.bsky.social, sharing @ceebankwatch.bsky.social experience with @ebrd.bsky.social. We urge development banks at #FiCS2025 to enhance CSO & community engagement required to advance #SDGs.
www.forus-international.org/en/pdf-detai...
www.forus-international.org/en/pdf-detai...
A crucial message to MDBs at #FiCS2025 from Reitumetse Nkoti Mabula: Development must be driven by community needs. People have the right to be consulted, to give or withhold consent for projects. The role of civil society is critical⚠️ #PublicParticipation #SDGs #HumanRights
February 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A crucial message to MDBs at #FiCS2025 from Reitumetse Nkoti Mabula: Development must be driven by community needs. People have the right to be consulted, to give or withhold consent for projects. The role of civil society is critical⚠️ #PublicParticipation #SDGs #HumanRights
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💡 Can finance be truly fair & accountable?
In this podcast, we talk with Accountability Counsel about key policy shifts needed to ensure finance serves people & the planet ahead of FfD4 & the G20.
🎧 Listen here: soundcloud.com/user-9751274...
#FinanceInCommon2025 #FICS2025
In this podcast, we talk with Accountability Counsel about key policy shifts needed to ensure finance serves people & the planet ahead of FfD4 & the G20.
🎧 Listen here: soundcloud.com/user-9751274...
#FinanceInCommon2025 #FICS2025
February 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
💡 Can finance be truly fair & accountable?
In this podcast, we talk with Accountability Counsel about key policy shifts needed to ensure finance serves people & the planet ahead of FfD4 & the G20.
🎧 Listen here: soundcloud.com/user-9751274...
#FinanceInCommon2025 #FICS2025
In this podcast, we talk with Accountability Counsel about key policy shifts needed to ensure finance serves people & the planet ahead of FfD4 & the G20.
🎧 Listen here: soundcloud.com/user-9751274...
#FinanceInCommon2025 #FICS2025
Just Transition & Social Invest. talk #FICS2025
✔️Education, employment & social inclusion are critical.
✔️PDBs & MDBs must invest in just transition projects.
✔️Rightsholders should be central & shape the transition.
✔️Strong public institutions, social policies, civil society engag. are required.
✔️Education, employment & social inclusion are critical.
✔️PDBs & MDBs must invest in just transition projects.
✔️Rightsholders should be central & shape the transition.
✔️Strong public institutions, social policies, civil society engag. are required.
February 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Just Transition & Social Invest. talk #FICS2025
✔️Education, employment & social inclusion are critical.
✔️PDBs & MDBs must invest in just transition projects.
✔️Rightsholders should be central & shape the transition.
✔️Strong public institutions, social policies, civil society engag. are required.
✔️Education, employment & social inclusion are critical.
✔️PDBs & MDBs must invest in just transition projects.
✔️Rightsholders should be central & shape the transition.
✔️Strong public institutions, social policies, civil society engag. are required.
Reposted by Nina Lesikhina
Civil society is calling on public development banks to better serve people and the 🌎! At #FinanceinCommon2025, 350+ groups demand meaningful civic engagement and integrated approach to human rights, development finance reform & the just transition.
📝: www.forus-international.org/en/pdf-detai...
📝: www.forus-international.org/en/pdf-detai...
February 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Civil society is calling on public development banks to better serve people and the 🌎! At #FinanceinCommon2025, 350+ groups demand meaningful civic engagement and integrated approach to human rights, development finance reform & the just transition.
📝: www.forus-international.org/en/pdf-detai...
📝: www.forus-international.org/en/pdf-detai...
Very timely call on PDBs and MDBs at #FICS2025 and G20 meeting in South Africa these days!
2️⃣ MDBs have a crucial role to play in financing #sustainabledevelopment, but more 💶 for these institutions won't solve the current challenges. Instead, we need changes to their:
➡️ #development paradigm
➡️ ways of working
➡️ internal incentives
➡️ global north-dominated governance structure
➡️ #development paradigm
➡️ ways of working
➡️ internal incentives
➡️ global north-dominated governance structure
February 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Very timely call on PDBs and MDBs at #FICS2025 and G20 meeting in South Africa these days!
Great to discuss community-led dev. at #FICS2025, but making it real requires more: decentralized decision-making, meaningful & systematic engagement with CSOs & communities, integration of local interests & needs, investment in people & social services, Indigenous-led solutions, support for SMEs.
February 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Great to discuss community-led dev. at #FICS2025, but making it real requires more: decentralized decision-making, meaningful & systematic engagement with CSOs & communities, integration of local interests & needs, investment in people & social services, Indigenous-led solutions, support for SMEs.
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1/2 🚨 New report reveals how development banks fail to counter shrinking civic space. When repressive governments limit communities from participating in development projects, the banks‘ own development goals are obstructed.
February 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
1/2 🚨 New report reveals how development banks fail to counter shrinking civic space. When repressive governments limit communities from participating in development projects, the banks‘ own development goals are obstructed.
Critical discussion at #FICS2025 underscored the need to asses real impact of public investments. @afd-france.bsky.social & @eib.org emphasized accountability and robust measurement system. ❌Civil society was absent from conversation. Community involvement and social metrics were barely mentioned.
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Critical discussion at #FICS2025 underscored the need to asses real impact of public investments. @afd-france.bsky.social & @eib.org emphasized accountability and robust measurement system. ❌Civil society was absent from conversation. Community involvement and social metrics were barely mentioned.
As we approach #FICS2025, sign the #CSO declaration calling on public development banks to commit to transformative actions, placing human rights, community leadership, and environmental sustainability at the core of all financing decisions. lnkd.in/e94kMgcn #PDBs
February 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
As we approach #FICS2025, sign the #CSO declaration calling on public development banks to commit to transformative actions, placing human rights, community leadership, and environmental sustainability at the core of all financing decisions. lnkd.in/e94kMgcn #PDBs
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Read also our analysis: ‘Holding the EIB and EBRD accountable: Are their grievance mechanisms effective?’ bankwatch.org/publication/...
Holding the EIB and EBRD accountable: Are their grievance mechanisms effective? - Bankwatch
In this report, we examine the alignment of the EIB and EBRD grievance mechanisms with the effectiveness criteria for the design and assessment of non-judicial complaints mechanisms set out in the UN ...
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January 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Read also our analysis: ‘Holding the EIB and EBRD accountable: Are their grievance mechanisms effective?’ bankwatch.org/publication/...