Plan International - Girls' Rights Platform - Girls' rights are human rights: Positioning girls at the heart of the international agenda

A/70/274 Contents Page 15-12536 I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 II. Human rights policy of the World Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 III. Explaining the aversion of the World Bank to human rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 IV. Time for change: why the World Bank needs a new approach to human rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 V. What difference would a human rights policy make? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 VI. Conclusions and recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3/23