Railway families to petition Asian Development Bank for help
Families evicted or still facing eviction to make way for an Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded project to rehabilitate the country’s railway system plan to petition the ADB today for help securing better compensation from the government. The ADB is putting up more than half the money for the $142 million project and has asked the government to make sure that the thousands of families slated for eviction – the vast majority of them already poor – will not be made any worse off…
