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New environmental and social standards at the World Bank and the AIIB

Consequences of the new standards for ensuring respect for human rights

The newly developed standards of the multilateral Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and of the World Bank fall short in many respects of the human rights commitments that the Federal Government has imposed on itself. If Germany wishes to achieve the objectives it has set for itself, it will have to conduct its own human rights assessment of projects, and close monitoring of project implementation will be equally necessary.

Topic(s): Business and human rights, Climate change and sustainability, Development policy
Publisher: German Institute for Human Rights

Filesize: (PDF, 88 KB)
URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-48706-7
Number of pages: 3
Publishing date: 10/2016

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