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Human Rights and Multilateral Development Banks


The Coalition for Human Rights in Development

A global campaign to prevent and address risks that human rights defenders face when raising their voices about projects funded by development banks. Learn More.

Human Rights Missing at Development Bank Summit

But the World Bank has long refused to embrace its human rights obligations, raising various objections to why it is unable or unwilling to ...

Human Rights Policies at the Multilateral Development Banks

Human Rights Policies at the Multilateral Development Banks: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Development Institutions and Finance of the ...

Governance as Multilateral Development Bank policy

'Good governance, democratic development and human rights are controversial issues in the Asian region with governments apprehensive of their implications for ...

A Human Rights Focus to Upgrade China's International Lending in

China has been as well an active promoter of two new multilateral development banks: the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Beijing and the ...

transnational social movement advocacy and the human rights ...

"As Multilateral Development Banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them ...

Channelling special drawing rights to multilateral development banks

As a result, there have been growing calls to channel SDRs to multilateral development banks (MDBs), which can leverage them up to three to six times. In this ...

15. The multilateral development banks and the management of the ...

The operations of multilateral development banks (MDBs, or 'the banks') can have both positive and negative human rights impacts. While it is important that ...

What can Development Banks do to Protect Human Rights?

Organizations like Human Rights Watch and Oxfam say that the financiers also bear responsibilities when local peoples' rights are abused to help ...

The Best of Both Worlds or the Worst of Both Worlds? Multilateral ...

AbstractMultilateral development banks (MDBs) are accorded immunities and privileges as agents of their member states as justified by functionalist ...

Development banks must strengthen human rights safeguards

Each year, public development banks – international, multilateral and national – make vital decisions on the financing of hundreds of development ...

What should the multilateral development banks do? [EBRD

investments in human and physical capital that promote development. The ... rights as investors in private sector operations through local and international legal ...

Multilateral Development Bank Reviews

USAID, in consultation with Treasury and State, shall instruct overseas missions to analyze the impacts of MDB loans well in advance of a loan's approval. Such ...

an' Av ntS - World Bank Documents and Reports

Development and human rights: the role of the World Bank p. cm. ISBN 0-8213-4340-8. 1. Human rights-Developing countries. 2. Economic development. 3. World Bank ...

Multilateral Development Banks - the United Nations

The forum is jointly organized by the multilateral development banks (MDBs): ... human rights, gender equality and women's empowerment, that are transparent ...

Channelling special drawing rights to multilateral development banks

Finally, global and local civil society organisations (CSOs) and think tanks should advocate for potential donor countries to channel their SDRs to MDBs and ...

The Role of Multilateral Development Banks Webinar - YouTube

... multilateral development banks (MDBs) to foster LGBTI-inclusive development ... Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy•28 views · 1:37:34.

What can development banks do to protect human rights?

What can development banks do to protect human rights? · Subscribe · Share · Advocacy Programs · World Bank & IMF in the news ...

New Multilateral Development Banks: Opportunities and Challenges ...

It identifies areas in which the new MDBs can complement the World Bank and other traditional MDBs and discusses ways in which they can ...

Development finance institutions

National and multilateral development banks are usually majority-owned by governments and capitalized with public funds, which enhances their creditworthiness ...