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📢 Starting in 1 hour, join us for the launch of #FinancingRepression!
Our new report (co-published with @4accountability & endorsed by 37 partners of the #DefendersInDevelopment campaign) reveals how
development banks are heavily investing in repressive countries, explains why this is concerning, and presents some key recommendations that devt banks should follow before investing in countries with closed #civicspace.
We have an amazing set of speakers at the launch event, don't miss it👇
Register here: https://t.co/3HIARSuBJc
Further info: https://t.co/jrYjHMNwLr

Thank you so much @ManushyaFdn for joining the #DefendersInDevelopment gathering in Tbilisi🩷
✊We're so grateful for the inspiring ideas you brought & the experiences you shared, and we look forward to continuing this journey together!
✊#DefendersinDevelopment - Manushya Foundation was in Tbilisi, Georgia, to attend an important Defenders in Development campaign gathering!
❣️ Over the course of a week, we met with over 100 human rights defenders and civil society organizations from 50 different countries! As a collective we discussed how we can better protect human rights defenders and civic spaces, especially in a time where civic spaces are shrinking globally.
#CSOs #WorldBank

✊#DefendersinDevelopment - Manushya Foundation was in Tbilisi, Georgia, to attend an important Defenders in Development campaign gathering!
❣️ Over the course of a week, we met with over 100 human rights defenders and civil society organizations from 50 different countries! As a collective we discussed how we can better protect human rights defenders and civic spaces, especially in a time where civic spaces are shrinking globally.
#CSOs #WorldBank

Are you a group/activist based in the #GlobalSouth & interested in working to prevent/address risks human rights defenders face, in the context of projects funded by development banks?
Apply now for our #DefendersInDevelopment policy grants👇https://t.co/FH2OoVMrVM

Through our #DefendersInDevelopment campaign, we work to prevent & address the risks defenders face when raising their voice about projects funded by devt banks.
👇Want to find out more? Check out this infographic & get in touch if you want to join us! https://t.co/mgm0LiRwDd

Are you a human rights defender, an organization or a community facing risks because of your work in the context of #development projects?
👉Check out the updated resource directory of the #DefendersInDevelopment security working group:
https://t.co/PCTAJsnu49

#COVID19 lock down measures are curtailing the right of #DefendersinDevelopment to resist projects that impacts them negatively. #DFIs must #StaywithDefenders and ensure that their funding is addressing needs and not creating more problems for communities.
¡Únanse a nosotros para mostrar su solidaridad con los/as #defensores en todo el mundo! Si valoras los derechos humanos, y aquellxs que los defienden, comparte tu mensaje. #QuédateAsalvo, pero ¡#QuédateConDefensores también! https://t.co/8etS8lHxHd
#COVID19 lockdown measures, often implemented by police or military in different countries, meant curtailed freedoms for communities resisting #DFI projects. Check out the stories our #CEP partners and other #DefendersinDevelopment shared. Read here: https://t.co/EecJLQGMvR

@atm_philippines National Coordinator @jaybeegarganera talks about the impacts of #COVID19 lockdown against #DefendersinDevelopment in mining communities in the Philippines.
On @ForeignPolicy's Podcast Don't Touch Your Face,
@jaybeegarganera speaks about the attacks or threats facing #EnvironmentDefenders in the Philippines - with growing concerns around the #COVID-19 lockdown.
🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/KUvUhpkvEX
@IAP has been tracking DFI-response to COVID19 pandemic. In the Philippines, #DefendersinDevelopment whose health were already poor due to @IFC_org coal investments are doubly vulnerable with #COVID19. #DFIs support to address COVID19 impacts should not add risks for communities.
#DefendersinDevelopment Gloria Capitan was killed in front of her family. Her activism was due to the adverse health impacts to her family of coal dust from the coal storage facility near them. Coal health impacts are making communities in the #Philippines vulnerable to #COVID19
6 months on, what's new for land & #environmentdefenders in the #Philippines?
❎New threats in COVID19 context
❎Government denial over escalating attacks
✅Positive corporate policy commitments
✅Legislative initiative
✳️@Global_Witness continuing support
https://t.co/JRdyAy9V2c
#DefendersinDevelopment are more vulnerable to possible attacks with the lock down measures due to #COVID19. @IFC_org efforts to systematically track reprisals allegations is impt, but using their leverage as lender and investors crucial to discourage and stop these attacks too.
Last year we showed that household brands @DelMontePH, @DolePhilippines & @IFC_org backed projects connected to violent attacks on Land & #EnvironmentDefenders.
6 months on, both companies have pledged to take action: https://t.co/yxk5FR2OvZ
#bizhumanrights

The new state of emergency in Cambodia goes far beyond COVID19 response & allows government to read every citizen's emails & listen to their phone calls. This is a direct threat to democratic rights & there's an urgent need to #ProtectCivilSociety & #DefendersinDevelopment

Total lock down and partial quarantines ostensibly protect us from #COVID19, but how do we #ProtectCivilSociety and #DefendersinDevelopment against the same measures that shut them down when they point criticize government's inadequate actions and violations of #humanrights.

#Development shouldn't be deadly. Yet another ill-conceived @WorldBank @IFC_org @Finnfund @norfund_ dam project linked to murder of #humanrights #defenders.
https://t.co/LFgAC75JOU @BICEuro @FrontLineHRD #DefendersinDevelopment

.@WorldBank @IFC_org Drags Feet in Probe of Activist’s Murder https://t.co/LFgAC75JOU #HRDs #DefendersinDevelopment #accountability @BICEuro
We #StandWithDefenders around the world who are being criminalized for protecting their lands and the environment we all depend on including #DefendersinDevelopment. JOIN THE MOBILISATION https://t.co/gXsWYNpfFg
Nous sommes aux côtés des défenseurs des droits humains qui sont criminalisés dans le monde entier pour avoir protégé leurs terres et l'environnement dont nous dépendons tous. #DefendersinDevelopment #StandWithDefenders JOIGNEZ-VOUS LA MOBILISATION https://t.co/cwxT8fNvnO

Nos unimos a los Defensores de todo el mundo que están siendo criminalizados por proteger sus tierras y el medio ambiente de los que todos dependemos. #DefendersinDevelopment #StandWithDefenders ÚNESE A LA MOVILIZACIÓN https://t.co/cwxT8fNvnO

We #StandWithDefenders around the world who are being criminalized for protecting their lands and the environment we all depend on including #DefendersinDevelopment. JOIN THE MOBILISATION https://t.co/cwxT8fNvnO

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![4accountability's tweet photo. It is critical that #DFIs support to address #COVID19’s health impacts should also ensure that their support will not put #HRDs at further risks of surveillance, intimidation or any form of reprisals.
We are tracking the DFI response [Update: 4 May 2020]: https://t.co/j3UEePKNUZ https://t.co/GBqXfhOlbb](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXQs3kWU0AM75N6.png)
