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This statement, submitted by Accountability Counsel and several endorsing organizations to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, provides feedback on the role of development finance institutions (DFIs) in ensuring accountability and remedy for human rights and environmental harms caused by their projects.

This guide identifies 69 strong policy provisions from existing Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs) to assist financial institutions in creating or improving their accountability frameworks. It emphasizes the need for IAMs to be independent of management, accessible to project-affected communities, and capable of providing both institutional learning and material remedy for harms.

This amicus curiae brief, submitted by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and other organizations, argues that the International Organizations Immunities Act (IOIA) should be interpreted under a "restrictive theory" of immunity. The brief contends that international organizations, such as the International Finance Corporation (IFC), should be immune from suits relating to governmental acts but not from those relating to commercial activities, aligning the IOIA with the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA).