Willem van Genugten is Professor of International Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and at the North-West University in South Africa (extra-ordinary chair). This publication results from a project funded by the European Science Foundation as part of the research network programme 'Beyond Territoriality: Globalisation and Transnational Human Rights Obligations (GLOTHRO)', which ran from 2010 to 2014.

• CONTENTSPreface List of abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. IFIs Positioning Themselves in the Human Rights Field 2.1. Official WBG position 2.2. Official IMF positionChapter 3. Applicable Human Rights Obligations 3.1. Introduction3.2. The links between IFI mandates and international human rights law 3.3. Incorporating IFIs in the domain of international human rights law 3.4. The 'political prohibition' on the World Bank 3.5. Human rights obligations of States acting in the context of IFIs 3.6. Obligations following from (legal) relationships between the IFIs and private subcontractors Chapter 4. Attributing Unlawful Conduct to IFIs and their Member States 4.1. Attribution and responsibility 4.2. 'In control' 4.3. Primary, subsidiary and shared responsibility Chapter 5. Accountability and Redress 5.1. Substantive and procedural standards 5.2. Human rights impact assessment 5.3. Existing IFI accountability mechanisms 5.4. Arbitration, mediation and dialogue-based conflict resolution Chapter 6. Concluding remarks Annex I. Tilburg-GLOTHRO Guiding Principles on the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund and Human Rights Annex II. Draft Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001) (excerpts) Annex III. Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations (2011) (excerpts) Annex IV. Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations ofStates in the area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2011) (excerpts) Annex V. UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (2011) (excerpts) Bibliography