26 January 2005
This year’s World Social Forum, which took place at the time of publication in Porto Alegre, Brazil from 26-31 January, hosted a number of World Bank/IMF related workshops and events. For information about which people and groups were there and IFI related events, visit IFIwatchnet.
As the world celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is time the IMF’s shareholders use the opportunities provided by the anniversary and growing calls for reforms to the international financial architecture to redesign the IMF’s governance structures and programmes to ensure they are consistent with the commitments outlined in 1948 and with international human rights law.
Influence of unreformed international financial institutions and creditor interests in debt solutions in low- and middle-income countries plagued by delay and ineffective when undertaken.
