This paper, prepared by Surabhi Chopra for IHRB, is based on a background paper prepared for a meeting IHRB convened at the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva in July 2010.
It analyses how businesses affect the right to water and the right to food, looking primarily at businesses as water users, rather than as water providers, and as food producers. It examines the private sector impacts on these rights through the “Protect, Respect, Remedy” framework developed by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on business and human rights.
The perception of ‘value’ needs to change if the World Bank’s mission is to succeed
Last week we attended the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington, D.C. The annual IMF-World Bank meetings bring together finance ministers and central bankers from all regions as a platform for official...
26 April 2024 | Commentary
Commentary by Vasuki Shastry, Author, ESG/Strategic Communications Expert; International Advisory Council, IHRB Haley St. Dennis, Head of Just Transitions, IHRB