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31 May 2023

Road to rights: Companies respond to allegations linked to infrastructure projects in EECA

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In May 2023, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre published Road to rights: The human cost of the new “Middle Corridor” - an analysis of the scale and scope of human rights abuse linked to infrastructure investments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, outlining the approaches which must be urgently adopted to deliver infrastructure which builds shared prosperity and a stable investment environment, as well as avoid the growing corporate regulatory, legal and reputational risks of abusing human and environmental rights.

The briefing focuses on completed, ongoing and planned infrastructure projects with actual and potential risks. The briefing also outlines recommendations for investors and companies to ensure further development is not accompanied by human rights and environmental abuse.

In line with the Resource Centre’s strategy and libel policy, we made every effort to reach out to companies and investors accused of abuse and ask them to respond to allegations made using our Company Response Mechanism (unless the company has already publicly commented on the case, or if the abuse is the basis of a lawsuit or regulatory action, or the company has no website or contacts to reach to them).

We received nine responses - four responses from companies and five responses from investors.

All company/investor responses and non-responses can be found below.

Company Responses

China Railway Construction

No Response

China Development Bank

No Response

JP Autoceste FBiH View Response
Asian Development Bank (ADB) View Response
Longhai Road and Bridge Corporation

No Response

China Road and Bridge Corporation

No Response

China Exim

No Response

Saudi Fund for Development

No Response

Hunan Road & Bridge Construction Group Company Limited

No Response

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB

No Response

China Xinxing Construction & Development Co

No Response

State Company KazAvtoZhol JSC

No Response

Akzhol Kurylys LLP

No Response

AzVirt LLC

No Response

Assana DorStroy LLP

No Response

City Transportation Systems LLP

No Response

China Railway International Group

No Response

Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Co., Ltd.

No Response

Bakad Investment and Operations LLP View Response
Alsim Alarko Sanayi Tesisleri ve Ticaret A.S.

No Response

Makyol Insaat Sanayi Turizm ve Ticaret A.S.

No Response

SK Engineering and Construction

No Response

Korea Expressway Corporation View Response
Bank of China

No Response

Dutch pension fund PGGM

No Response

China Railway 23rd Bureau Group (part of CRCC)

No Response

Georgian Railway JSC

No Response

European Investment Bank (EIB)

No Response

China National Water Resources & Hydropower Engineering (Sinohydro)

No Response

China Railway Tunnel Group Co., Ltd. (subsidiary of CREC)

No Response

Shandong Hi-Speed ​​International (SDHS)

No Response

Western Balkans Investment Framework

No Response

Vodno Stroitelstvo-Blagoevgrad

No Response

ENKA Insaat ve Sanayi A.S. View Response
Bechtel

No Response

Granit Construction Stock Co.

No Response

Victoria Invest LLC

No Response

Bemax

No Response

Cijevna Komerc

No Response

China Railway Group (CREC) (part of China Railway Engineering)

No Response

Opus Global

No Response

Avtodor

No Response

Avtoban JSC

No Response

Mostotrest PJSC

No Response

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) View Response
Islamic Development Bank View Response
Eurasian Development Bank View Response

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