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Azerbaijan: Crackdown on critics undermines sustainable development – Human Rights Watch letter to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Azerbaijan: Crackdown on critics undermines sustainable development – Human Rights Watch letter to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Advocacy letter    |    29 November 2016

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In this letter, Human Rights Watch and Bankwatch highlight the ongoing repression of independent civil society in Azerbaijan and its impact on sustainable develpoment and urge the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to limit its engagement in the country, specifically to not provide financing for projects related to the country’s extractives sector such as the Trans-Anatolian Gas Pipeline (TANAP) and the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP).

Institution: EBRD

Theme: Energy & climate | Social & economic impacts | Development

Location: Azerbaijan

Project: Southern Gas Corridor / Euro-Caspian Mega Pipeline

Tags: Human Rights Watch

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