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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jessica Evans
Jessica Evans*
Affiliation:
International Financial Institutions, Human Rights Watch
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Regulating the Impacts of International Project Financing
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 107 , 2013 , pp. 298 - 302
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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1 Human Rights Watch, “Waiting Here for Death”: Forced Displacement and “Villagization” in Ethiopia’s Gambella Region, at 36, Jan. 17, 2012, http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/01/16/waiting-here-death.

2 World Bank, Development and Human Rights: The Role of the World Bank, at 2 (1998), http://siteresources.world-bank.org/BRAZILINPOREXTN/Resources/3817166-1185895645304/4044168-1186409169154/08DHR.pdf (last visited Apr. 8, 2013).

3 Id.

4 For further discussion see Bradiow, Daniel, The World Bank, the IMF, and Human Rights, 6 J. Transnat’l L. & Contemp. Probs. 47, 51, 52, 79, 80 (1996)Google Scholar.

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6 Human Rights Watch, Double Standards: Women’s Property Rights Violations in Kenya, at 30 (Mar. 5, 2003), http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/03/03/double-standards-0 (last visited Apr. 30, 2013).

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