The World Bank and human rights 2015, para. 8

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Beginning in the late 1980s, the General Counsel of the Bank, Ibrahim Shihata, revisited the human rights issue. In a 1990 opinion he considered the question of governance and in 1995, the political prohibition. Although the latter opinion recognized the indivisibility of human rights, it drew a clear distinction between the two sets of rights. The General Counsel argued that, although the operations of the Bank already promoted a broad range of economic, social and cultural rights, its Articles of Agreement would normally prohibit it from promoting political rights. He left open the possibility of an exception in that latter regard when "an extensive violation of political rights which takes pervasive proportions" had "significant economic effects".
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Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
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  • N.A.
Year
2015
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Other
Paragraph number
8