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Governor of the International Finance Corporation, the

United States Governor of the International Development Association, the United States Governor of the

Inter-American Development Bank, the United States

Governor of the Asian Development Bank, and the

United States Governor of the African Development

Fund, to propose and seek adoption of an amendment

to the Articles of Agreement for their respective institutions to establish human rights standards to be considered in connection with each application for assistance.’’

CROSS REFERENCES

Denial of international development assistance to

countries violating human rights, see section 2151n of

this title.

Implementation of United States policy opposing the

practice of torture by foreign governments, see Pub. L.

98–447, set out as a note under section 2656 of this title.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in sections 262r, 2799aa–1,

5605, 6302 of this title.

§ 262d–1. Congressional statement of policy of

human rights and United States assistance

policies with international institutions

It is the sense of the Congress that, where

other means have proven ineffective in promoting international human rights, and except

where the President determines that the cause

of international human rights is served more effectively by actions other than voting against

such assistance or where the assistance is directed to programs that serve the basic needs of

the impoverished majority of the country in

question, United States representatives to the

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the African Development Fund, the

Asian Development Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank should oppose loans and

other financial or technical assistance to any

country that persists in a systematic pattern of

gross violations of fundamental human rights.

(Pub. L. 95–148, title V, §507, Oct. 31, 1977, 91

Stat. 1240.)

§ 262e. Comparability of salaries and benefits of

employees of international financial institutions with employees of American private

business and governmental service

The President shall direct the United States

Executive Directors of such international financial institutions to take all appropriate actions

to keep the salaries and benefits of the employees of such institutions to levels comparable to

salaries and benefits of employees of private

business and the United States Government in

comparable positions.

(Pub. L. 95–118, title VII, §704, Oct. 3, 1977, 91

Stat. 1071.)

EFFECTIVE DATE

Section effective Oct. 3, 1977, see section 1001 of Pub.

L. 95–118, set out as a note under section 282i of this

title.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 262r of this title.

§ 262f. Promotion of development and utilization

of light capital technologies and United

States assistance policies with international

financial institutions

The United States Government, in connection

with its voice and vote in the International

Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the

International Development Association, the

International Finance Corporation, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Bank,

and the African Development Bank, shall promote the development and utilization of light

capital technologies, otherwise known as intermediate, appropriate, or village technologies, by

such international institutions as major facets

of their development strategies, with major emphasis on the production and conservation of energy through light capital technologies.

(Pub. L. 95–118, title VIII, §801, Oct. 3, 1977, 91

Stat. 1071; Pub. L. 97–35, title XIII, §§1342(c),

1371(b)(1), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 743, 746.)

AMENDMENTS

1981—Pub. L. 97–35 redesignated subsec. (a) as entire

section, inserted reference to African Development

Bank, and struck out subsec. (b) which related to an

annual report to Congress on progress toward achieving

goals of this section.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1981 AMENDMENT

Amendment by Pub. L. 97–35 effective Aug. 13, 1981,

see section 1372 of Pub. L. 97–35, set out as an Effective

Date note under section 290i of this title.

EFFECTIVE DATE

Section effective Oct. 3, 1977, see section 1001 of Pub.

L. 95–118, set out as a note under section 282i of this

title.

§ 262g. Human nutrition in developing countries

and United States assistance policies with

international financial institutions; declaration of policy

The Congress declares it to be the policy of

the United States, in connection with its voice

and vote in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International

Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the

Asian Development Fund, and the Asian Development Bank, to combat hunger and malnutrition and to encourage economic development in

the developing countries, with emphasis on assistance to those countries that are determined

to improve their own agricultural production,

by seeking to channel assistance for agriculturally related development to projects that would

aid in fulfilling domestic food and nutrition

needs and in alleviating hunger and malnutrition in the recipient country. The United States

representatives to the institutions named in

this section shall oppose any loan or other financial assistance for establishing or expanding

production for export of palm oil, sugar, or citrus crops if such loan or assistance will cause injury to United States producers of the same,

similar, or competing agricultural commodity.

(Pub. L. 95–118, title IX, §901, Oct. 3, 1977, 91

Stat. 1071; Pub. L. 97–35, title XIII, §1371(b)(2),

Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 746.)