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Videos captured by Liane Greeff and paid for by the Environmental Monitoring Group. Each film is broken into multiple parts so make sure you check each link if you want to see the entirety of this content. If the links no longer work please contact the
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------------------------ "For the period from 2002 to the present time I followed the saga of the Bujagali Dam in Uganda which will have devastating environmental and social impacts. The dam will drown a large section of the Nile River as it flows out of Lake Victoria and the Bujagali Rapids will be a memory. This video tracks six stories of resettlement based on interviews with people who were moved around 2001/02 when I first visited them, and then again in 2006. I was horrified to find taht they had been forgotten whilst the politicians were trying to find alternative funds when the allegedly corrupt AES comany abandoned the Bujagali resettled."Writes Liane Greef regarding her film Bujagali: 6 Stories of Resettlement. To watch the film check out both parts. ------------------------ "Resettling Maguga is a three part 30 minute videos detailing the story of resettlement of people to make way for the Maguga Dam in Swaziland on the Nkomati River. Unlike many or most stories of dam resettlement, the community members resettled by Maguga Dam say that they are better off after being resettled than they were before. This video tries to capture the reasons why. It was filmed and produced by Liane Greeff for the Environmental Monitoring Group, with original music composed by Roy MacGregor. Filming of the video was made possible with funds from Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and the Global Greengrants Fund. The Maguga Dam is a transboundary project funded by both South Africa and Swaziland." Writes Liane Greef regarding her fil Resettling Maguga. To view the parts click on each links below. Part One and Part Two and Part Three
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| INDR identifies key human rights issues in the IFC involuntary resettlement policy revision |
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On behalf of INDR, Theodore (Ted) Downing helped prepared an overview of human rights issues to be considered in the revision of the International Finance Corporation's Performance Standard on Involuntary Resettlement and Land Acquistion (PS5). INDR joined with the International Accountabiity Project (Jennifer Kalafut) and the Housing and Land Rights Network (Shivani Chaudhry) to prepare a brief on key Issues for Upholding Housing Land and Property Rights in the International Finance Corporation’s Review of Environmental and Social Policy Standards (Jan 2010). Their findings highlighted 1) minimizing displacement and ensuring that displaced persons are project beneficiaries, 2) inclusion of individuals and communities who lose their livelihoods because of polluted fisheries, diminished water supplies, air pollution and other project impacts who face the full gamut of potential human rights violations and risks associated with unmitigated displacement, 3) inclusion of full risk assessment and livelihood restoration measures, 4) ensurance that there are specific requirements for providing information and training about rights and processes options (including IFC policies and accountability mechanisms) by a third party prior to negotiations to help balance the bargaining power, and 5) strengthening of free, prior and informed consent in compliance with other international standards. |
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