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Letter to EIB requesting information on SME lending through financial intermediaries

Advocacy letter | 4 January, 2010 | Download PDF

The EIB responded to our letter on January 27, 2010. Their response can be downloaded as pdf.

Green Alternative and Bankwatch comments on the Tbilisi railway bypass project

Advocacy letter | 30 December, 2009 | Download PDF

Letter to ArcelorMittal asking to disclose information under the company’s Stakeholder Engagement Plan

Advocacy letter | 23 December, 2009 | Download PDF

EIB response to Bankwatch’s petition and report ‘Change the lending, not the Climate’

Advocacy letter | 23 December, 2009 | Download PDF

The European Investment Bank has responded to Bankwatch’s report ‘Change the lending, not the Climate’ that was released in the lead-up to the ill-fated Copenhagen climate talks, and the bank has asked us for the sake of transparecy to publish their response, which we are doing here.

Letter to EBRD regarding legal punishment of human rights activist supporting Kumtor cyanide spill victims

Advocacy letter | 22 December, 2009 | Download PDF

The letter addresses the Kyrgyz Republic’s Supreme Court decision to uphold a 2-year conditional sentence on Ms Baktygul Imankozhoeva, a doctor in the village of Barskoon near the EBRD-financed Kumtor gold mine, for abuse of official position. The charges appear to be fabricated as a response to Ms Imankozhoeva’s advocacy on behalf of the victims of a 1998 cyanide spill from the mine, and form part of a continuing pattern of intimidation against her.