On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:50 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Yet for an institution committed to poverty reduction, it is unacceptable > that the Bank has done so little in the area of human rights. > If the Bank finances projects that hinder the rights of the vulnerable in a > country (the Yacyretá dam project, for instance, forcibly displaced over > 50,000 people in Argentina and Paraguay) or channels investments to state > governments that do so, the Bank harms its own reputation and relevance as a > global leader in fighting poverty.
Oh gfive me a break. Argentina needs more Yacyreta dams, not less. And I fail to see how government infrastructure projects displacing people is a human rights issue, if they're given compensation. Not even a highway could be built without affecting SOMEONE that needs to be relocated. FC _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
