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Governance As Responsibility: Member States As Human Rights Protectors in International Financial Institutions

Governance As Responsibility: Member States As Human Rights Protectors in International Financial Institutions

Author: Ana Sofia Barros
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108729901

Published In: December 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Hardback Edition ISBN: 9781108492867

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This book undertakes a specialised analysis of a topic that is highly significant both theoretically and practically. At the theoretical level, it discusses questions that have remained insufficiently answered in the fields of international human rights and institutional law. Notably, it clarifies how international human rights law conditions member states' governance role within international financial institutions and how this role is to be accommodated in the regime of international responsibility. Furthermore, the book's thorough discussion of member states' human rights due diligence duties offers a practical contribution to the understanding of what tools may be used by states to secure their human rights obligations when participating in international financial institutions. Its practical significance also relates to the examination of the various elements that must be demonstrated by an individual wishing to invoke member State responsibility for alleged human rights violations in the context of international financial institution operations.

Defines the border between international organisations and their member states and provides a theoretical background to help understand member state responsibility
Clarifies how international human rights law conditions member states' governance role within international financial institutions
Introduces a new perspective and explains the application of attribution rules in the context of member state participation in the representative bodies of international (financial) institutions
Analyses the establishment of member state responsibility for failure to act with due diligence as governors of international financial institutions

Introduction

1. The relationship between international (financial) institutions and their member states

2. Accounting for the governance role of member states of international financial institutions in the regime of international responsibility

3. Member states as human rights protectors in international financial institutions: matching governance with responsibility

Conclusion.