Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Philip Alston
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The chapter explores the contributions made by Alston’s three reports as Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights that address the human rights responsibilities of the United Nations, the World Bank, and the IMF respectively. In these reports Alston criticizes the United Nations’ failure to accept responsibility for UN peacekeepers’ actions in spreading disease in Haiti, the World Bank’s restrictive interpretations of its mandate, and the IMF’s failure to advance a human rights framing for its ‘social protection’ policies. The chapter highlights the reports’ contributions to general debates over the meaning of the ‘rule of law’, whether (and how) international organizations are ‘subject’ to human rights, the contribution of ‘managerial’ enforcement techniques, and the limits of ‘legal’ accountability.
Source Publication
The Struggle for Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Philip Alston
Source Editors/Authors
Nehal Bhuta, Florian Hoffmann, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret, Margaret Satterthwaite
Publication Date
2021
Recommended Citation
Alvarez, José E., "Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Philip Alston" (2021). Faculty Chapters. 51.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/51
