ISSUE OVERVIEW: Human rights
26 September 2013
26 September 2013
Bank responds to allegations with investigation into whether its China lending could be going to internment camps.
Bretton Woods Institutions found to share responsibility for social unrest leading to serious human rights violations.
World Bank and IFC identified as key funders of projects that endanger human rights defenders.
IFC announces changes to environment and social safeguards after historic United States Supreme Court ruling.
Defenders in Development Campaign welcomes IFC’s position on retaliation against human rights defenders in development but call for more specific actions
UN releases Guiding Principles on human rights impact assessments of economic reforms, begging the question of how the IMF will respond.
Report links IFC to environmental harm and human rights violations resulting from cattle industry expansion in Paraguay.
World Bank publishes GBV Action Plan for developing-country projects, while internal sexual harassment cases from 1980s are brought to World Bank Ombudsman.
CSOs call on IFC to ensure new AIMM development impact framework includes human rights-based methodology and applies to entire portfolio.
CAO audit finds IFC failed to identify gaps in project’s social and environmental assessment, while communities impacted by the project face impacts on water source, livelihoods and levels of violence.