One of the United Nations agencies is currently reviewing their social and environmental safeguard policies – the World Bank (‘the Bank’). You might think then, as a UN ‘Specialised Agency’, that the World Bank is considering how to update their policies to keep up to date with the latest human rights developments. If you thought this about this particular UN agency, you’d be quite wrong. The World Bank hasn’t even adopted specific human rights policies, and doesn’t recognize that it has organizational responsibilities to abide by international human rights law.
