The China Western Poverty Reduction Project (China - Tibet)

In this project, the Bank planned to help finance the population transfer of approximately 58,000 Chinese farmers into a traditionally Tibetan and Mongol area. In addition to being politically insensitive, the project also was designed in violation of numerous World Bank policies, including information disclosure, indigenous peoples, involuntary resettlement, agricultural pest management, environmental assessment. A claim was filed to the Inspection Panel, which has investigated the project and is now preparing its report. 

For more information about the project, follow the following links:

• VICTORY! World Bank Effort to Support China's Population Transfer Into Tibet is Defeated!  Please see CIEL's press release for further details.
• All Gloves Are OFF!   This is the final stretch in the campaign to stop the World Bank's China-Tibet resettlement project formally known as the China Western Poverty Reduction Project.  (June, 2000)
• Further news on the claim to the Inspection Panel and for what you can do NOW!  
• The Project and the Claim to the Inspection Panel:  More information on the project, including a description of the project, CIEL's analysis of the policy violations and the claim that was filed to the Inspection Panel on June 18, 1999.
• View the U.S. Department of State’s 1999 China Country Report on Human Rights for China.
• Timeline:  The most important dates in the China-Tibet Inspection Panel Claim.