The issue of corporate criminal responsibility for ecocide and other offences deserves in-depth analysis in a future report - Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

If the Bank really has development at heart, it will change the conditionalities away from privatization, deregulation and lower corporate taxation and put the emphasis on reducing military expenditures, ensuring that progressive tax legislation is enacted and enforced, that tax havens are outlawed, and that a financial transactions tax is adopted and the revenues used to build “A World Free of Poverty” through international solidarity.

Austerity is necessary in the military – not in the progressive achievement of economic, social and cultural rights.

Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.