The World Bank’s Roadmap and Human Rights Responsibilities

Abstract

This chapter studies whether the World Banks is bound by international human right law, the evolution of its mandate and in particular its so-called “Roadmap”, how specifically the World Bank Inspection Panel has been delivering its role within the international financial architecture in order to ensure and bolster the ]WB’s accountability, and why and how to incorporate human rights elements into the set of indicators can be facili-tated by the use of hybrid indicators.