Abuse-Free Development: How the World Bank Should Safeguard Against Human Rights Violations

2013 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 298-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Evans
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Free Development

Recognized and Violated by International Law: The Human Rights of the Global Poor

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS POGGE
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The World

Various human rights are widely recognized in codified and customary international law. These human rights promise all human beings protection against specific severe harms that might be inflicted on them domestically or by foreigners. Yet international law also establishes and maintains institutional structures that greatly contribute to violations of these human rights: fundamental components of international law systematically obstruct the aspirations of poor populations for democratic self-government, civil rights, and minimal economic sufficiency. And central international organizations, such as the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank, are designed so that they systematically contribute to the persistence of severe poverty.

Poverty, Human Rights and the Quest for Sustainable Human Development in Structurally-Adjusted Uganda

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
J. Oloka-Onyango
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Political System ◽  
Economic Adjustment ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Resistance Movement ◽  
The International Monetary Fund

In a bid to address the almost two decades of economic malaise and decline that Uganda had experienced in the 1970s and 1980s, Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement adopted radical measures of economic adjustment under the tutelage of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Although those measures resulted in significant economic growth – in GDP terms – this article argues that they failed to be conscious of basic principles of human rights relating to equality, non-discrimination and participation, and have consequently compounded the situation of poverty in the country. It further argues that the ‘non-party’ political system in existence further undermines the promotion and protection of fundamental human rights.

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