Kate Geary
@kategeary.bsky.social
Work on human rights and accountability at Recourse. Also post about living with long Covid and playing flute. Feminist. Own opinions.
Janine Ferretti's resignation follows a controversial ruling that civil society fears reflects a dark future for the bank's accountability commitments.
Watchdog head resigns after World Bank board rejects microfinance finding
Watchdog head resigns after World Bank board rejects microfinance finding
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Shocking intervention by the IFC’s board to overturn its own accountability mechanism’s decisions. Recourse is joining 99+ CSOs to cry foul..
Recourse@re-course.org · 3mo agoAccountability in crisis at the World Bank Group? The Bank's Board recently overruled its own independent accountability mechanism (CAO), in an unprecedented move which allowed its private sector arm (IFC) to dodge accountability for the microfinance debt crisis it has contributed to in Cambodia. 🧵
The project is “shrouded in secrecy," says Prabindra Shakya of local organisation AIPNEE “It is time for the IFC to disclose publicly all documents relating to its involvement with IME Group, to show how and why it didn't apply its Standards [of] protection and respect for Indigenous Peoples.”
The case is currently in compliance appraisal after IFC's financial intermediary client refused to engage with the assessment process Following the Assessment Report, we call for a full compliance investigation. Details: re-course.org/newsupdates/nepal-cable-car-case-full-compliance-investigation/
🇳🇵 Indigenous Yakthung (Limbu) Peoples in Nepal have filed a complaint to the IFC's accountability mechanism regarding its support for a cable car project that threatens their sacred mountain, environment & rights. All you need to know about the case ahead of the #WBGmeetings 👉️ bit.ly/pathivara-case
My short blog on much-needed reforms to accountability at the Asian Development Bank
Recourse@re-course.org · last yr.#ADBAnnualMeeting wrap-up 🫔 Civil society groups called for reform of the bank's Accountability Mechanism and questioned the new "mutual reliance" approach. @kategeary.bsky.social writes 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/kate-geary68_ive-been-at-the-asian-development-bank-activity-7327627535314268160-uK_Y
“The IFC should use this moment to learn the lessons from its past mistakes, and take on board the feedback from communities affected by IFC projects, who have suffered human rights abuses or had their livelihoods destroyed when safeguards have failed to protect them.” — @kategeary.bsky.social
🚨 The International Finance Corporation has just this week launched a long-awaited review of its Sustainability Framework, a set of hugely important environmental and social safeguards This is a “generational opportunity” for more sustainable global finance Read more: re-course.org/newsupdates/...
The IFC launches review of its Sustainability Framework
The IFC launches long-awaited review of its Sustainability Framework, a “generational opportunity” for more sustainable global finance. Read more here.
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"Lifting as we climb" Banner showing the motto of the most prominent organization of the African-American Women's Suffrage Movement, which formed in 1896 #WomensArt #Monday
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh’s Art Nouveau gesso panel ‘The White Rose and the Red Rose’ (detail), 1902 #WomensArt
🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE 🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent. 🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room. 🧵 🔽 thread below
💌 Some wise souls have joined us for #LongCovidAwarenessDay Agreeing we urgently need funding for: ⭐ biomarkers ⭐ pathophysiology ⭐ treatments @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk @nihr.bsky.social #Postcards4LC
This is such a brilliant article: we know what causes long COVID and we know how to treat it - but where is the urgency to invest in the clinical trials needed?
Billy Hanlon@bhanlon15.bsky.social · 2y agoLA Times: “Opinion: Long COVID is solvable, but we need more clinical trials” “…more well-designed clinical trials are desperately needed to help the millions suffering..” By Amy Proal www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Really helpful guide for healthy allies, friends and family about how to help people with long Covid in your life. www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/how-to-... by @longcovidadvoc.bsky.social
How to Help Someone with Long Covid
We created a SPLASH guide (which is also relevant for ME and other chronic illnesses), which contains a few handy pointers
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As 2024 draws to a close, @re-course.org looks back on a busy but inspiring year, working to hold public finance accountable to people and the planet Huge thanks to our partners, funders, colleagues past and present, and our allies around the world ✊ x.com/RecourseTeam... #2024Wrapped 👇📺
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Read how development banks EBRD, IFC and ADB are failing victims of #HumanRights violations at #IndoramaAgro in #Uzbekistan by ignoring reports of NGOs and failing to respond to retaliations. #FinancingRepression
Coalition for Human Rights in Development@rightsindevt.bsky.social · 2y ago📢 Our new report #FinancingRepression is out! Through data analysis & 5 case studies ( #Azerbaijan #Egypt #Tajikistan #Uzbekistan #Vietnam), the report shows why devt banks should rethink how they invest in countries with closed civic space. 👉Read more: rightsindevelopment.org/financing-re...
Providing funding to a repressive regime to construct the world's highest dam is clearly a recipe for disaster. Yet, today the #WorldBank will vote on the #Rogun dam in #Tajikistan, despite it risks displacing +60,000 ppl. Read more in this op-ed for @aljazeera.com 👇https://bit.ly/AJoped
This is such a brilliant thread about our government in denial about COVID and Long COVID
tern@1goodtern.bsky.social · 2y agoActually, all you need from that paragraph is this: "employment rate fall over the last five years, which has been largely driven by a significant rise in the number of people out of work due to long-term ill health"
What kind of denial ridden ignorance can look at this graph and think that this isn't caused by Covid?
Not a single mention of Long Covid in the Get Britain Working White Paper. Govt still ignoring NHS staff & frontline workers, who put their lives on the line during the pandemic, now suffering with the condition. We urgently need to recognise Long Covid as an occupational disease.
My alma mater looking very pretty in the snow this week
Mike Galsworthy@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2y agoI ripped this video from Eleonora Svanberg on X (she’s not on 🦋) She wrote: “I'm a PhD student at @UniofOxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-) Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!”
