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U.N. Upholds Human Rights, World Bank Dismisses Them
2015-10-09 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The United Nations has always remained one of the most vociferous and passionate advocates of human rights - exemplified in the creation in 2006 of a 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva to uphold its mandate. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. Credit: OECD But, in its own political yard, a member of its extended family, namely the World Bank, is apparently working at cross-purposes. Philip Alston, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, has lambasted the World...
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