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Author : Stefan Aelbrecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (949 download)
Download or read book The World Bank Inspection Panel. (Human Rights) Accountability? written by Stefan Aelbrecht and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (779 download)
Download or read book The World Bank Inspection Panel: A Record of the First International Accountability Mechanism and Its Role for Human Rights written by Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dana Clark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742533110
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Demanding Accountability written by Dana Clark and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demanding Accountability is a collection of nine original case studies that offer insights into how local, national, and international civil society factors mobilize to hold the World Bank accountable for its financed projects. It is a rich source of lessons for understanding today's emerging transnational civil society efforts to challenge powerful global institutions.
Author : Gudmundur Alfredsson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004482563
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Inspection Panel of the World Bank written by Gudmundur Alfredsson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the adoption of extensive human rights standards and their wide acceptance by States and the international community, the time has come to emphasise the implementation of these standards at both national and international levels. International financial institutions and development agencies have a special role to play in this respect, considering the influence and the resources at their disposal. Increasingly, they are acknowledging this duty, not only as a service to human rights but more so in recognition of the contribution which human rights and democracy, and so by extension good governance and accountability, make to political stability and improved economies. This volume is the result of a Workshop on the Inspection Panel which was organised in Lund by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and co-sponsored by the World Bank. Its purpose is to look for common ground in areas of mutual interest and to offer a substantive collection of ideas which can prove useful for the future work of the Inspection Panel and similar institutions. Such undertakings must include human rights education and training for the officialdom of national governments and international organisations, as well as for the individuals and groups who stand to benefit from the implementation of the international standards and monitoring exercises, where independent and impartial experts scrutinise the conduct of national and international actors.
Author : Guy Fiti Sinclair
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Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Beyond Accountability? Human Rights, Global Governance, and the World Bank Inspection Panel written by Guy Fiti Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper seeks to move beyond the usual accountability framework of human rights law, focusing on one case of the World Bank Inspection Panel (WBIP) to consider other aspects of the relationship between human rights and international organisations in global governance. In particular, the paper makes two novel analytical moves. First, it conceptualises international organisations such as the WBIP as complex assemblages comprising diverse elements, thereby drawing attention to the manifold practices that connect the innumerable actors involved in constructing, processing, and contesting a WBIP complaint. Second, the paper widens the frame to examine the dynamics of authority at play between the various actors in a WBIP case. In this perspective, human rights appear not so much as a fixed set of standards against which WBIP seeks to hold the World Bank accountable for its actions, but rather as one among a number of vocabularies of authority deployed by the sundry entities in a range of complex interactions. As such, human rights are continually constructed, defined, and distinguished from other modes of discourse and practice in the making (and unmaking) of global governance.
Author : Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The World Bank Inspection Panel written by Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sanae Fujita
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781006059
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Human Rights written by Sanae Fujita and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÔDr Fujita reminds us of the critically important role that human rights can play. Opening up new perspectives, this book is a major and original contribution to the literature.Õ Ð From the foreword by Paul Hunt ÔSanae FujitaÕs book, The World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Human Rights is a significant scholarly contribution to important issues of global governance in our increasingly interconnected world. The book is an excellent treatment of the emergence of participatory rights and accountability in the context of international finance and international organizations more generally. Particularly valuable is the in-depth treatment of transparency and accountability at the Asian Development Bank, an important and often-overlooked institution critical to international governance.Õ Ð David Hunter, American University Washington College of Law, US The World Bank and the Asian Development Bank are two of the worldÕs major institutions conducting development projects. Both banks recognize the importance of transparency, participation and accountability. Responding to criticisms and calls for reform, they have developed policies that are designed to protect these values for people affected by their projects. This original and timely book examines these policies, including those recently revised, through the prism of human rights, and makes suggestions for further improvement. It also analyses the development of the BanksÕ stance to human rights in general. This unique book contains valuable and deeply insightful information drawn from extensive face-to-face interviews with relevant actors, including key personnel from both banks, consultants to the banks and members of civil society organisations. It expands the scope of research/discussion on human rights obligation of International financial institutions that will prove insightful for both academics and students. Practitioners will gain a great deal from the detail given on the standards of transparency, participation and accountability and their applicability to the day-to-day operations of development institutions.
Author : Enrique R. Carrasco
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The World Bank's Inspection Panel written by Enrique R. Carrasco and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1993, the World Bank created the Inspection Panel. At the time, it was hailed as an unprecedented effort to increase the Bank's accountability. Prior to the establishment of the Panel, the Bank had engaged in a number of projects that devastated local populations and caused significant environmental damage. After unrelenting pressure from environmental and human rights non-governmental organizations ("NGOs"), the World Bank established the Inspection Panel with hopes of bringing transparency to the Bank's project lending. Generally, the Panel is charged with investigating complaints filed by parties in borrower countries who believe that the Bank is violating its policies or procedures in the design, preparation, or implementation of a Bank-funded project. Despite its novelty when it was established in 1993, there are many critiques of the Panel. In general, critics question whether the Panel truly increases the accountability of the World Bank on the whole. Critics often point out that it has a limited substantive mandate and no ability to grant relief. Furthermore, the mechanism fails to give affected people a true voice in the outcome of an investigation. After the Panel receives the claim, the Bank rarely considers the affected communities' desires for resolution. In essence, the Panel is compliance-oriented, and problem-solving is not a principal focus. This paper proposes an alternative to the current Inspection Panel process that would offer real and meaningful accountability. Our proposal envisions a two-stage process that first would require claimant communities to file a Request for Claim Resolution with a newly created Office of Claims Resolution ("OCR") at the World Bank. The Director of the OCR would appoint an independent Intermediator who would attempt to solve the problem created by the Bank's alleged noncompliance with its own policies and procedures. We expect that most claims would be resolved at the administrative level. If, however, the Intermediator failed to resolve the claim or if the Bank agreed to corrective measures but failed to abide by them, claimant communities would have the option to institute arbitration proceedings against the Bank. The proceedings would be conducted based on a modified version of the Optional Rules for Arbitration between International Organizations and Private Parties produced by the Permanent Court of Arbitration. The tribunal's decision would be public, final, and binding upon the parties. Its award could set forth corrective measures that the Bank would be required to take to bring it into compliance with its policies and procedures. The tribunal could also award damages to the claimant community.
Author : Andrea Luisa Schünke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (611 download)
Download or read book The World Bank Inspection Panel: Access to Transnational Justice? written by Andrea Luisa Schünke and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Accountability at the World Bank written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stian Øby Johansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108851606
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Human Rights Accountability Mechanisms of International Organizations written by Stian Øby Johansen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International organizations are becoming increasingly powerful. Today, they affect the lives of individuals across the globe through their decisions and conduct. Consequently, international organizations are more capable of violating the human rights of individuals. But how can they be held to account for such violations? This book studies the procedural mechanisms that may hold international organizations to account for their human rights violations. It establishes a general framework for identifying, analyzing, and assessing the accountability mechanisms of international organizations. This general framework is then applied to three distinct cases: the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy missions, refugee camp administration by the UNHCR, and detention by the International Criminal Court. The overall conclusion is that none of the existing accountability mechanisms across the three cases fulfill the normative requirements set out in the general framework. However, there are significant variations between cases, and between different types of accountability mechanisms.
Author : Yvonne Wong
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The World Bank's Inspection Panel written by Yvonne Wong and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter examines the general functioning of the World Bank Inspection Panel during its first two decades of operation (1994-2014) to assess whether it really is a vehicle through which individuals can hold the World Bank accountable. In making this assessment, the chapter considers (a) the history of the panel's creation; (b) the novelty of the panel as a mechanism for implementing the accountability of an international organization; (c) the legal framework of the panel; (d) the accessibility of the panel to the people it seeks to help; (e) the transparency, independence, and public accountability of the panel; and (f) the direct and indirect outcomes of the panel mechanism. The chapter suggests that, while not providing affected persons a legal avenue for redress, the Inspection Panel, if used strategically as part of larger advocacy strategies, particularly by increasing media coverage on problematic projects, can nevertheless serve as a useful tool in helping redress wrongs committed as a result of the Bank's failure to comply with its own policies. More generally, the panel can also push for a cultural change toward greater consideration of the unintended consequences of development projects.
Author : Ibrahim F. I. Shihata
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0195211308
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)
Download or read book The World Bank Inspection Panel written by Ibrahim F. I. Shihata and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annexes: Documents relating to the Inspection Panel -- Bank policies and procedures most relevant to the Inspection Panel function -- Comparison between the inspection function at the World Bank, the IDB, and the ADB.
Author : Maartje van Putten
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773585168
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Policing the Banks written by Maartje van Putten and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing how formerly secretive financial institutions have been slow to accept responsibility for the consequences of their investments - especially the problems that can result from projects in developing countries - she shows that financing institutions can cause significant social and environmental damage and argues that new accountability mechanisms are necessary to reduce or prevent such damage. Because such institutions operate on a global scale, only semi-judicial accounting mechanisms can provide the necessary accountability. It is time for the private financial sector to follow multilateral financial institutions in creating independent mechanisms, mediation procedures, and access to decision makers for people harmed or potentially harmed by projects financed by their institutions.
Author : Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement. Panel d'inspection
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Accountability at the World Bank written by Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement. Panel d'inspection and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andria Naudé Fourie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The World Bank Inspection Panel and Quasi-judicial Oversight written by Andria Naudé Fourie and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book conceptualizes the World Bank Inspection Panel as a mechanism of quasi-judicial review or oversight, aimed at enhancing the accountability and legitimacy of the World Bank, which is conceived as an international institution exercising public power. The author engages in comparative constitutional law analysis, looking towards three non-international constitutional systems - the United States, the European Union, and post-Apartheid South Africa - to construct a conceptual model of judicial oversight that reflects the concept's nature, effect, and dynamics. The author employs this model to analyze the institutional history and practice of the World Bank Inspection Panel, covering the Panel's entire institutional lifespan. The author concludes that the nature, effect, and dynamics of judicial oversight - indeed, the "judicial spirit" - is more alive in this area of public international law than what might be expected. This book will be of interest to both constitutional and international lawyers, as well as legal practitioners and members of international civil society frequently engaging with international financial institutions such as the World Bank.
Author : David Hunter
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The World Bank's New Inspection Panel: Will It Increase the Bank's Accountability? written by David Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
