• 13 September 2023

    Driving Global Change: The Role of Public Development Banks to Mobilize Private Capital for Sustainable Infrastructure

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

    #FICS2023 A Space for Us with Stephanie Amoako, Accountability Counsel

    By Forus
    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.
  • 27 September 2022

    Webinar: Our Last and Only Resort

    By Accountability Counsel and Arab Watch Coalition
    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.”
  • 1 September 2022

    L’accès au recours en Afrique (Traduction française)

    By ACCA et Accountability Counsel
    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.
  • 1 September 2022

    Access to Remedy in Africa

    By ACCA & Accountability Counsel
    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.
  • 27 October 2021

    Transmission Tragedy

    By LAHURNIP and Indigenous Media Foundation, with Accountability Counsel
    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.
  • 15 April 2021

    Accountability in Africa Webinar 2: An Investor Call to Action

    By Accountability Counsel & ACCA
    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.
  • 26 January 2021

    Redevabilité en Afrique Webinaire 1 : Le besoin urgent d’une redevabilité portée par les communautés (Traduction Française)

    By Accountability Counsel & ACCA
    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.
  • 26 January 2021

    Accountability in Africa Webinar 1: The Urgent Need for Community-Led Accountability

    By Accountability Counsel & ACCA
    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.
  • 31 August 2020

    Accountability Counsel: Advocating for People Harmed by Internationally Financed Projects

    By Accountability Counsel & Luminate
    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.
  • 4 June 2020

    World Affairs Webinar: Advancing Community Rights Through Peacebuilding

    By World Affairs & Accountability Counsel
    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.
  • 28 May 2020

    Why Technical Support Matters to Protect People & Communities

    By True Costs Initiative, AAAS, Accountability Counsel, AIDA, AREDE, ELAW, E-Tech International, MAJI, & NMAP
    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.
  • 21 May 2020

    Tanawthari Landscape of Life

    By Conservation Alliance Tanawthari (CAT)
    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.
  • 27 September 2019

    When the Dust Came In: Mongolian Herders Negotiate Their Future with a Massive Mine

    By Accountability Counsel & Abhi Singh
    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.
  • 1 March 2018

    Social Start-Up Success Stories

    By World Affairs
    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.
  • 28 February 2018

    Siddharth Akali On Dev’s Hammer Show with Dev Kumar Sunuwar

    By Indigenous Television
    Siddharth Akali discusses Accountability Counsel’s work with communities in Nepal for Dev’s Hammer Show on Indigenous Television.
  • 8 March 2017

    Visión Comunitaria Afectación Aeropuerto El Dorado

    By Comunidades Unidas
    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.
  • 1 March 2016

    Preventing Environmental & Human Rights Abuses in Oaxaca, Mexico

    By Accountability Counsel & New Media Advocacy Project (N-MAP)
    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.
  • 8 September 2015

    Reporter ‘Trapped’ on Tea Plantation in India

    By BBC News
    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.
  • 27 February 2015

    Building Back Better? The Caracol Industrial Park and post-earthquake aid to Haiti

    By ActionAid USA
    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.
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