My short blog on much-needed reforms to accountability at the Asian Development Bank

“The IFC should use this moment to learn the lessons from its past mistakes, and take on board the feedback from communities affected by IFC projects, who have suffered human rights abuses or had their livelihoods destroyed when safeguards have failed to protect them.” — @kategeary.bsky.social

🚨 The International Finance Corporation has just this week launched a long-awaited review of its Sustainability Framework, a set of hugely important environmental and social safeguards This is a “generational opportunity” for more sustainable global finance Read more: re-course.org/newsupdates/...

"Lifting as we climb" Banner showing the motto of the most prominent organization of the African-American Women's Suffrage Movement, which formed in 1896 #WomensArt #Monday

Life size driftwood horse sculptures by UK sculptor Heather Jansch #WomensArt

Harebells, 2017 by Evi Tihemets, Estonian printmaker #WomensArt #April

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh’s Art Nouveau gesso panel ‘The White Rose and the Red Rose’ (detail), 1902 #WomensArt

🔥 ⚖️ today: day 2 of #ClimateJustice hearing in #SaulvsRWE 🏛️ The Higher Regional Court in Hamm (🇩🇪) reviews if a #fossilfuels company can be held accountable for climate harms, potentially setting a historic precedent. 🐦 📝 I am reporting live from the Court's room. 🧵 🔽 thread below

Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart

💌 Some wise souls have joined us for #LongCovidAwarenessDay Agreeing we urgently need funding for: ⭐ biomarkers ⭐ pathophysiology ⭐ treatments @ashleydaltonmp.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk @nihr.bsky.social #Postcards4LC

This is such a brilliant article: we know what causes long COVID and we know how to treat it - but where is the urgency to invest in the clinical trials needed?

Sarah Bowman 'White Iris and Blackbird' Contemporary painter #WomensArt

Really helpful guide for healthy allies, friends and family about how to help people with long Covid in your life. www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/how-to-... by @longcovidadvoc.bsky.social

Ann Sotheran, contemporary UK Stained Glass artist #WomensArt

Welcome to WomensArtBlueSky ! xx

As 2024 draws to a close, @re-course.org looks back on a busy but inspiring year, working to hold public finance accountable to people and the planet Huge thanks to our partners, funders, colleagues past and present, and our allies around the world ✊ x.com/RecourseTeam... #2024Wrapped 👇📺

Read how development banks EBRD, IFC and ADB are failing victims of #HumanRights violations at #IndoramaAgro in #Uzbekistan by ignoring reports of NGOs and failing to respond to retaliations. #FinancingRepression

Providing funding to a repressive regime to construct the world's highest dam is clearly a recipe for disaster. Yet, today the #WorldBank will vote on the #Rogun dam in #Tajikistan, despite it risks displacing +60,000 ppl. Read more in this op-ed for @aljazeera.com 👇https://bit.ly/AJoped

As promised, here's a clue for tomorrow's #ThereForMEAdventCalendar. Can you guess who it is?

This is such a brilliant thread about our government in denial about COVID and Long COVID

What kind of denial ridden ignorance can look at this graph and think that this isn't caused by Covid?

Not a single mention of Long Covid in the Get Britain Working White Paper. Govt still ignoring NHS staff & frontline workers, who put their lives on the line during the pandemic, now suffering with the condition. We urgently need to recognise Long Covid as an occupational disease.

My alma mater looking very pretty in the snow this week

'Wren In Winter' by UK printmaker Sarah Bays