DoomsdaysCW<p>From the Bretton Woods Project: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> (cont'd):</p><p>"Labour <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>unions</span></a>, for instance, have long opposed the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BWIs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BWIs</span></a>’ systematic weakening of labour rights either directly through conditionality or indirectly through policy advice in flagship reports and surveillance, such as the IMF’s 2017 loan programme to Greece (see Observer Autumn 2017), or the World Bank’s 2018 World Development Report (see Observer Winter 2018), respectively. Other economic and social rights, such as the right to social security, health and education, as well as the broader right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food, clothing and housing, are all undermined by the BWIs’ promotion of excessively constrained fiscal policies and aggressive privatisation that preclude states from delivering core public services and meeting their international human rights obligations.</p><p>"A related and intersectional thread of human rights critiques focuses on how these policies supported, proposed or required by the BWIs are designed unevenly in favour of those already at the top of the economy and society, further exacerbating inequalities within and between countries and disproportionately harming the marginalised, who already are most vulnerable to human rights violations. </p><p>"Groups that are often disproportionately and cumulatively disadvantaged by the types of macroeconomic policies the BWIs promote include the poor, women, immigrants, the elderly, children and youth, ethnic and religious minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQI communities."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReligiousMinorities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ReligiousMinorities</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EthnicMinorities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EthnicMinorities</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChildLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChildLabor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LGBTQI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LGBTQI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IMFLoanSharks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IMFLoanSharks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorldBank</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborUnions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LaborUnions</span></a></p>