World Bank + Human Rights

Question 1

historical record

Answer 1

approach to HR and development is “incoherent, counter productive and unsustainable”

Question 2

Suggestions for improvement

Answer 2

must develop coherent policy on HR-based approach to development

should engage with HRC procedures and policy involving assisting states with financial HR problems

Question 3

Ethiopian Case Study

Answer 3

Ethiopian govt in 2010 launches plan to relocate 1.5m families to new villages

Driven out brutally to make room for foreign investors, human rights abuses, funded by world bank and DFID in U.K.

Reaches U.K. courts due to ethiopian farmer and secretary of state eventually withdraws for funding for program