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Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights criticizes the World Bank for shying away from talking about human rights and using rights based language. Rights language provides a context and a framework, invokes states’ legal obligations, underscores that certain values are nonnegotiable, brings a degree of normative certainty, and makes use of the agreed interpretations of rights that have emerged from decades of reflection, discussion and adjudication. Most important, rights language recognizes the dignity and agency of all individuals and is intentionally empowering. washingtonpost/opinions/philip-alston-the-world-bank-treats-human-rights-as-unmentionable/2014/11/07/9091dafa-65da-11e4-9fdc-d43b053ecb4d_story.html
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:30:07 +0000

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