753 research outputs found

    A Roadmap for Integrating Human Rights Into the World Bank Group

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    Offers a framework for linking effective international development and poverty reduction with human rights, including empowering communities to use the World Bank Group's grievance mechanisms. Outlines accomplishments, shortfalls, and recommendations

    Free, Prior and Informed Consent and the World Bank Group

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    Responsible Mining: The Key to Profitable Resource Development

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    Better mining corporations want to adopt “Responsible Mining”. This paper outlines the essentials of responsible mining and offers a guide to corporations who want become responsible. Eight principles are discussed: (1) Social and environmental assessment, (2) Transparency, (3) Acceptance by stakeholders, (4) Food production trumps questionable mining, (5) Compliance with international standards, (6) Corporate prequalification, (7) Insurance and performance bonds, and (8) Royalties, taxes and fees. These principles are followed by a discussion of No-Go Zones to mining: why some types of sites should be off-limits to all mining. The Annex on Compensatory Offsets suggests that, on occasion, there may be exceptions to a No-Go Zone

    Free, Prior and Informed Consent and the World Bank Group

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    Equity Jurisprudence

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    Chronic pain, disability, and depression: An old problem, a new understanding.

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