Pakistan: IMF Bailout Should Advance Economic Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A produce vendor waits for customers at a market in Islamabad, Pakistan, on January 22, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File. (New York) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should work with Pakistan’s government to protect the economically disadvantaged by broadening social protection systems and minimizing reform measures that risk further harm to the most vulnerable people, Human Rights Watch said today. With poverty, inflation, and unemployment soaring, Pakistan is facing one of the worst economic crises in its history, jeopardizing millions of people’s rights…

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