Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 IFIs Positioning Themselves in the Human Rights Field
- Chapter 3 Applicable Human Rights Obligations
- Chapter 4 Attributing Unlawful Conduct to IFIs and their Member States
- Chapter 5 Accountability and Redress
- Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks
- Annex I Tilburg-GLOTHRO Guiding Principles on the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund and Human Rights
- Annex II Draft Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001) (excerpts)
- Annex III Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations (2011) (excerpts)
- Annex IV Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2011) (excerpts)
- Annex V UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (2011) (excerpts)
- Bibliography
Annex I - Tilburg-GLOTHRO Guiding Principles on the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund and Human Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 IFIs Positioning Themselves in the Human Rights Field
- Chapter 3 Applicable Human Rights Obligations
- Chapter 4 Attributing Unlawful Conduct to IFIs and their Member States
- Chapter 5 Accountability and Redress
- Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks
- Annex I Tilburg-GLOTHRO Guiding Principles on the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund and Human Rights
- Annex II Draft Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001) (excerpts)
- Annex III Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations (2011) (excerpts)
- Annex IV Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2011) (excerpts)
- Annex V UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (2011) (excerpts)
- Bibliography
Summary
PREAMBLE
– Recalling the 2003 Tilburg Guiding Principles on World Bank, IMF and Human Rights, drafted by a group of experts, meeting at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, in October 2001 and April 2002 ('2003 Tilburg Guiding Principles’);
– Considering the significant overlap between substantive areas covered by international human rights law and the work of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on, inter alia, improving poor people's access to work, health, education, food and water; promoting the participation of indigenous peoples in decision-making; holding state governments accountable to those under their jurisdiction; and supporting justice reforms;
– Recalling that creating the conditions for the realization of human rights is a central goal of human development and a responsibility of all States under, inter alia, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
– Reaffirming the WBGs and IMFs own policy statements, recognizing, albeit in different ways, the growing need to address human rights in a more explicit fashion;
– Emphasizing the self-proclaimed role of the WBG and the IMF to support their Member States in fulfilling their human rights obligations while carrying out the policies, projects and programs of both international financial institutions (IFIs);
– Reviewing the human rights obligations and responsibilities of the WBG and the IMF in light of developments in the domain of international human rights law over the last decade.
The drafters of the 2014 Tilburg-GLOTHRO Guiding Principles on the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund and Human Rights have further developed and reformulated the 2003 Tilburg Guiding Principles.
LEGAL OBLIGATIONS
– Guiding Principle 1: General International Law Obligations
International organizations do have international legal personality, which comes with obligations in the field of international (human rights) law. More specifically, the WBG and the IMF, having entered into Relationship Agreements with the United Nations in accordance with UN Charter Articles 57 and 63, are bound by the UN Charter, customary international law and general principles of law.
– Guiding Principle 2: The ‘Political Prohibition’
The ‘Political Prohibition’, conceptually linking activities of the WBG to non-interference into ‘the domestic affairs of sovereign States’, must be re-interpreted in conformity to modern international human rights law, and applied accordingly.
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