Germany, Austria and Switzerland have withdrawn their export credit guarantees for the highly controversial Ilisu dam project in Turkey.

RESETTLEMENT NEWS 19

January 2009

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Fair deal for displaced families?

The government will set a humane precedence with the Punatsangchhu hydroproject displaced

10 June, 2009 - The 89 families that will have to make way for the 1200 MW Punatsangchhu dam, the largest number of people ever displaced in such circumstances in Bhutan, may just get the compensation they desire.  The minister of economic affairs, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk, said...

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."