The World Bank should uphold human rights
The mandate of World Bank is to reduce poverty, but economic development only improves people’s lives when it is accompanied by the guarantee of the full enjoyment of their human rights.
The Bank’s current safeguard policies, whose purpose is to ensure that the Bank “does no harm,” do not sufficiently guarantee respect for human rights, resulting in some Bank-financed projects leaving the very people the Bank aims to support even worse off. Only a serious change in the Bank’s safeguard policies would guarantee that the World Bank upholds human rights for future projects.
That’s where you come in. In October 2012, the World Bank launched a review of its safeguard policies. The review is expected to take two years, and the first public consultation period for the safeguard review ends on April 21st.
Send an postcard to the World Bank to tell them that the safeguard policies must uphold human rights.
Send a Postcard to Mr. Ian Solomon
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As a member of the public, I am writing to urge that World Bank safeguard policies uphold human rights. Specifically, the new policies should require the World Bank to undertake human rights due diligence, including:
(1) A commitment not to finance activities likely to cause or contribute to human rights abuses;
(2) Human rights impact assessments for all Bank-financed activities; and
(3) Policies that are consistent with human rights standards.
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Office of the Executive Director (EDS01), The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.; Mail Stop MC 13-1307
Washington, DC 20433
USA
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