Latest News By Category

• CIEL Supports Introduction of the 2013 Safe Chemicals Act
• Mining license approved in wake of violence, investigation into murder pending
• Civil Society and Entrepreneurs Call on World Bank to Clean Up Energy Lending
• New CIEL blog post asks #Whatwillittake for the World Bank to uphold human rights?
  

Latest Biodiversity Program News

• Peru's primary newspaper, El Comercio, reports on our work that exposes the effects of oil palm production on deforestation in the Amazon
• CIEL reviews the possible impacts of a wave of new dams in the Andean Amazon, the most biologically diverse zone on Earth
• "Sustainable Loreto"
• Senior Attorney Anne Perrault and colleagues discuss Migratory Connectivity and the Conservation of Migratory Animals

Latest Chemical Program News

• CIEL Supports Introduction of the 2013 Safe Chemicals Act
• Civil society organizations urge President Obama for a timeout on natural gas exports until critical national economic, environmental and trade concerns are thoroughly analyzed and carefully addressed
• New CIEL report describes a stronger global system for toxic chemicals
• WHO-UNEP Report on endocrine disruptors highlights need for global action
• Stronger Laws for Hazardous Chemicals Spur Innovation

Latest Climate Change News

• Civil Society and Entrepreneurs Call on World Bank to Clean Up Energy Lending
• Civil society organizations urge President Obama for a timeout on natural gas exports until critical national economic, environmental and trade concerns are thoroughly analyzed and carefully addressed
  
• Send a Letter to President Obama: Make climate change a priority in his second term
• At Doha Climate Talks: Failed ambition and unfulfilled promises
  

Latest Human Rights & Environment Program News

• CIEL welcomes adoption of Maastricht Principles on Extra-Territorial Obligations in regards to human rights. (October 2001)
• Basel Convention COP10 makes historic progress on preventing hazardous waste from being sent to the Global South (October 2001)
• Aerial spraying of herbicides in Colombia and Ecuador: environmental and human rights impacts. (October 2001)
• U.S. and Canadian mining companies search for gold buried near the Lempa River, tHR_Enviratening the water source for more than half of El Salvador’s 6.2 million people, as illustrated in The Nation's, "Like Water for Gold in El Salvador" (July 2011)

Latest International Financial Institutions Program News

• U.S. Senators urge strengthening of the World Bank's new approach to lending - Program-for-Results (P4R) lending.
• Getting the International Finance Corporation to respect and protect human rights (March 2011)
• World Bank Inspection Panel under tHR_Envirat (February 2011)
• February 1, 2011 Event - Human Rights and Private Sector Investment: Views from the Global South (January 2011)

Latest Law & Communities Program News

• Mining license approved in wake of violence, investigation into murder pending
• New CIEL blog post asks #Whatwillittake for the World Bank to uphold human rights?
• Urgent Action: Call for investigation and company departure in response to recurring violence in area of Canadian-owned silver project
• Guatemala's Highest Court Denies Justice to Indigenous Peoples Affected by Mining
• International Organizations Call for Better Protection for Human Rights Defenders in Guatemala