May 8, 2013
Asian Development Bank complicit in human rights violations in India
Exploitation of workers, violations of labour laws, child labour, hazardous working conditions and lethal accidents at the work place. This is just a sample related to 10 projects that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) finances in India. Big projects, like building a metro and the construction of an electricity network. The Netherlands is shareholder of the ADB.
Read more:
- Global Union Federations Give ADB Thumbs Down for Labour Record (criticism on ADB, by BWI, May 7, 2013)
- Metro sites causing health hazards for workers; employing children (Bangalore.CitizenMatters.in, Jan 17, 2012)
- Labour laws mean nothing to Namma Metro contractors (The Hindu, Apr 10, 2013)
- Dutch involvement in
ADB-financed projects in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Nepal (research paper prepared for FNV Mondiaal, Jan 4, 2013)
- Global Union Federations urges Asian Development Bank to ensure core Labour Standards in all operations (FNV Mondiaal, Apr 2013)
- Development through empowerment can only be achieved through decent work
(GlobalUnionsOnADB, May 2, 2013)
- Global Unions met new ADB President Takehiko Nakao (GlobalUnionsOnADB, May 2, 2013)
- [Dutch:] Asian Development Bank medeplichtig aan mensenrechtenschendingen (FNV Mondiaal, May 1, 2013)
- [Dutch:] 'Nederlands hulpgeld naar kinderarbeid in India'
(NRC, May 1, 2013)
Parliamentary questionsby members Voordewind (Christian Union), Bonis (Labour
Party) and Thieme (Party for the Animals) to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation on financing of
construction projects in India where labor rights and children’s rights are
violated (submitted May 6, 2013)
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India Committee of the Netherlands - May 8, 2013