WASHINGTON -- A group of United Nations experts on human rights is urging the World Bank to reconsider proposed revisions to its safeguards for development projects. In a letter to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim made public on Tuesday, 28 independent human rights experts appointed by the U.N. sharply criticized a draft of the proposed revisions, released in July. "[T]he document seems to go out of its way to avoid any meaningful references to human rights and international human rights law," ...
Human Rights Experts Denounce World Bank's Proposed Safeguard Changes
The Huffington Post - 18 Dec 2014 01:51
WASHINGTON -- A group of United Nations experts on human rights is urging the World Bank to reconsider proposed revisions to its safeguards for development projects. In a letter to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim made public on Tuesday, 28 independent human rights experts appointed by the U.N. sharply criticized a draft of the proposed revisions, released in July. "[T]he document seems to go out of its way to avoid any meaningful references to human rights and international human rights law," ...
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