It is particularly striking that one of the most complex and contentious issues confronting the Bank in the twenty-first century, namely a human rights policy, is resolved not on the basis of any detailed legal or empirical analysis, or of transparent debates within the Bank, but on the basis of a legal opinion rooted in the politics of the last century and based on a mode of legal analysis that has long been considered to be unjustified and unsustainable in relation to almost every other issue.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights