HRW: WB fails to protect critics’ rights

WASHINGTON: The World Bank remains too passive when client governments and businesses attack critics of its development projects, according to a Human Rights Watch report released on Monday.

In the report, “At Your Own Risk: Reprisals against Critics of World Bank Group Projects”, HRW outlines cases in which it alleges the Washington-based development lender has failed to protect freedom of expression, assembly and association from threats by governments, and company employees and contractors.