Human Rights Experts Denounce World Bank's Proposed Safeguard Changes

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," ...