Run over by a massive motorway project, Mostar residents demand to be heard
Resumo
Data informada: 11 Fev 2022
Localização: Bósnia e Herzegovina
Empresas
JP Autoceste FBiH - Client , Western Balkans Investment Framework - Sponsor , European Investment Bank (EIB) - Sponsor , European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - SponsorProjetos
Mostar-Počitelj section of Corridor Vc - SiteAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Comunidade: ( Número desconhecido - Bósnia e Herzegovina , Construção de Estradas , Gender not reported ) , Ecosystem: ( Número desconhecido - Bósnia e Herzegovina , Construção de Estradas , Gender not reported ) , Grupos raciais e étnicos: ( Número desconhecido - Bósnia e Herzegovina , Construção de Estradas , Gender not reported )Temas
Impact on notable or protected areas , Avaliação de Impactos , Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment , Direito à terra , Insufficient/inadequate consultation , Displacement , Discriminação Racial/ Étnica/ Origem , Social Security , Protestos , Acesso à InformaçãoResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Tipo de fonte: NGO
11 February 2022
Touted as “the backbone of the country´s connectivity,” roughly half of the 700-kilometer motorway interlinking Budapest with the port city Ploce on Croatia’s Adriatic coastline cuts through the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), and jeopardizes residents’ livelihoods along its way...
Serious questions about the current design’s environmental and social impacts, on top of the obscured decision-making process behind it, have sparked a series of local opposition by a group of citizens from different communities. To varying degrees these people are directly and indirectly affected by the land expropriation for the project, by planned construction activities and ultimately by the operation of the motorway...
...[T]he public company, JP Autoceste, moved on with the expropriation of properties and homes located directly on the motorway in the South of Mostar. Despite ongoing local opposition and the submission of two complaints to the independent complaint mechanisms of the international financiers, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the EBRD, JP Autoceste claims that the progress made on expropriation demonstrates public support for the project.
Echoing citizens’ complaints to the Banks, Bankwatch found the banks to fail several of their own standards that imbue them with the obligation to ensure protection of local people’s rights and biodiversity.
To obtain the full support from local residents for the subsection in the south of Mostar, the EBRD and its project promoter, JP Autoceste, need to conduct additional studies and an analysis of alternative routes that will do less harm and will receive “social license” from affected local people...