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...