NGOs boycott AIIB annual meeting, citing a ‘troubling pattern of exclusion’ of impacted communities

Published on September 25, 2024

While this year’s forum is the first to include civil society talks, a group of 250 NGOs says the China-based multilateral bank did not give them control over the agenda, casting doubt over the efficacy of AIIB's accountability mechanism.

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