Margaux Day | Source | Policy Director at Accountability Counsel
Margaux Day
Margaux is the Policy Director at Accountability Counsel. She leads their advocacy to ensure that international institutions financing projects protect the human and environmental rights of the communities that they affect. Margaux has worked on legal matters regarding state, corporate, and individual accountability in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Vietnam, and Yemen, among others states.
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The problem is [that] almost nothing is new. IFC has failed the board’s assignment and failed the communities that it impacts.
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IFC policy for when projects cause harm lambasted as 'letdown'
The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, has released a new policy to govern how it responds when projects go wrong and seriously harm people or the environment, but advocates lambasted its “shocking” failure to go far enough or address past problems.
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