- ISBN-10: 9041128816
- ISBN-13: 9789041128812
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- Language: English
The many issues raised include the following:
• IFIs’ impact on economic policies in Member States;
• IFI operations as private financial transactions;
• IFIs as key players in the creation of international law;
• IFIs as promoters of the international capitalist system;
• IFIs as bearers of human rights obligations under international human rights law or as participants in the UN system;
• consequences of an IFI’s breach of its own internal policies or directives;
• IFI immunity;
• IFI capacity to sue and to be sued in national courts;
• ability of various claimants to sue IFIs in domestic courts;
• environmental and social rights and interests of third parties affected by IFI financing;
• right of indigenous people to give their free, prior, and informed consent to IFI operations that affect them; and
• IFIs’ treatment of workers’ rights.