Open AccessHuman Rights and Financial Institutions: Pinning the Responsibility
Author(s) -
Nidhi Modani
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
kathmandu school of law review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2773-8159
pISSN - 2091-2110
DOI - 10.46985/jms.v3ispecial.1013
Subject(s) - human rights , business , financial system , focus (optics) , finance , accounting , political science , law , physics , optics
This paper is a study of the possible human right obligations of international financial institutions. As financial institutions have not been looked upon as agencies influencing or influenced by human rights, this study becomes significant. The study is limited to international financial institutions, with a special focus on the World Bank (hereinafter ‘Bank’) and the International Monetary Fund (hereinafter ‘Fund’ or ‘IMF’). 2 Further, there is a special focus on developing nations.3