Videos

A recording of a critical conversation at the 2023 Finance in Common Summit, led by Accountability Counsel’s Senior Policy Associate Stephanie Amoako.

Ahead of the 2023 Finance in Common summit, AC’s Stephanie Amoako discusses the importance of preventing harm to local communities and ensuring accountability and remedy for harms caused by development projects.

Join our panelists for a multi-lingual deep dive into the findings and recommendations of our new report, “Our Last and Only Resort: What happens when development finance goes wrong in the Middle East and North Africa.”

Réalisé en partenariat avec la Coalition Africaine pour la Redevabilité des Entreprises, L’accès au recours en Afrique est un moyen nouveau pour les communautés et la société civile qui cherchent des renseignements sur les options de recours en cas de préjudices causés par les flux financiers internationaux.

Produced in partnership with the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability, Access to Remedy in Africa is a new tool for communities and civil society seeking information on options for redress in the face of internationally-financed harm.

The European Investment Bank funded a transmission line in Nepal. Communities living in the project zone are demanding the bank hear their concerns and suspend the project until their rights are respected.

The second in a series of webinars discussing the findings and implications of the Accountability in Africa report, hosted in partnership with the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) and with support from the Centre for Human Rights.

Le premier d’une série d’événements qui se focalise sur le rapport « Redevabilité en Afrique », ses recommandations et ses implications pour les communautés, leurs défenseurs et les investisseurs internationaux en Afrique. Le webinaire était co-animé par Accountability Counsel et ACCA, avec le soutien du Centre for Human Rights.

The first in a series of webinars discussing the findings and implications of the Accountability in Africa report, hosted in partnership with the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA) and with support from the Centre for Human Rights.

Natalie Bridgeman Fields, founder and executive director of Accountability Counsel, explains how the organisation amplifies the voices of communities around the world to protect their human rights and environment.

Accountability Counsel’s Natalie Bridgeman Fields and Caitlin Daniel discuss the power of accountability offices as a tool for peacebuilding, with case studies from our clients in Mongolia and Mexico.

Technical support has proven invaluable for community campaigns to protect their rights, and is most effective when grounded in a deep understanding of culture and community needs.

This short film by the Conservation Alliance Tanawthari (CAT) presents a vision for Indigenous-led conservation in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region. Indigenous communities have managed this landscape and the biodiversity within for generations. Now large-scale agribusiness, mining projects, and top-down conservation efforts threaten the lands and livelihoods of local communities.

Nomadic herders in Mongolia’s South Gobi Desert are fighting to protect their way of life and livelihoods while living alongside the massive Oyu Tolgoi mine. In 2017, they reached historic agreements with the mining company and local government to address the impacts of the mine. Our new film shares the collective work that led to this achievement and the path forward to ensure that the promises translate to a sustainable future for local herders.

When it comes to social entrepreneurship, there is no shortage of ideas from people who want to make a great impact on the world. However, leaders in the nonprofit sector face many challenges on their path to implementing their ideas in order to affect change locally and globally. In this video, Accountability Counsel Board Chair, Kathleen Kelly Janus, speaks with the Founder and Executive Director of Accountability Counsel, Natalie Bridgeman Fields, and Director of Social Innovation and Impact at Claremont McKenna College, Gemma Bulos.

Siddharth Akali discusses Accountability Counsel’s work with communities in Nepal for Dev’s Hammer Show on Indigenous Television.

Footage from the community of Fontibón, Colombia that demonstrates the noise pollution due to the expansion of the El Dorado International Airport, financed in part by the Inter-American Development Bank.

Accountability offices can be powerful tools for communities seeking justice in the face of abuse. In a new video produced with New Media Advocacy Project (N-MAP), Accountability Counsel shows the story of the Cerro de Oro case in Oaxaca, Mexico. This groundbreaking case resulted in communities successfully defending their rights and local environment from a destructive project.

The BBC’s South Asia correspondent, Justin Rowlatt encountered obstruction from management when he tried to access a tea plantation in India. Several of the world’s biggest tea brands including PG Tips, Lipton, Tetley and Twinings have said they will work to improve the tea estates they buy from in India after a BBC investigation found dangerous, disgusting and degrading living and working conditions. Harrods has stopped selling some tea products in response. The joint investigation by Radio 4’s File on Four and BBC News also found that some tea estates break the law by restricting public access to workers’ living areas.

Five years after the earthquake, a new report from international aid agency ActionAid reveals how a US-backed industrial park, paid for with disaster relief funding, has evicted food-producing farmers from their land in Haiti. An ActionAid investigation shows how more than US$170 million of US emergency aid money to Haiti was used to finance the Caracol Industrial Park, which was built on prime agricultural land in northern Haiti, far outside the disaster zone. A total of 366 families and 720 agricultural workers lost their land and livelihoods with only a few days’ notice to make way for the park.