An examination of the powers and responsibilities of the international financial institutions in respect of human rights.

This book offers a human rights-based critique of the World Bank and IMF through a rigorous and in-depth application of international legal rules governing the proper interpretation of the institutions' mandates.

This Study explores arguments about the impact of climate change on human rights, examining the international legal frameworks governing human rights and climate change and identifying the relevant synergies and tensions between them. It considers arguments about (i) the human rights impacts of climate change at a macro level and how these impacts are spread disparately across countries; (ii) how climate change impacts human rights enjoyment within states and the equity and discrimination dimensions of those disparate impacts; and (iii) the role of international legal frameworks and...