The World Bank and human rights 2015, para. 58
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- Even in comparison with other multilateral development banks, the World Bank is still an outlier. A recent Bank study concluded that "[m]ost of the other MDBs refer to 'human rights' in supportive aspirational terms while recognizing the responsibility of clients to respect human rights." The World Bank, it noted, does so solely in relation to indigenous peoples. Thus, while the World Bank was in good company in the 1980s in being wary of incorporating human rights standards into its work, it now stands almost alone, along with the International Monetary Fund, in insisting that human rights are matters of politics which it must, as a matter of legal principle, avoid, rather than being an integral part of the international legal order.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 58
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