Pub. L. 94-302, tit. I, sec. 211

Sec. 211. (a) The United States Governor of the. Fund is authorized and directed to cause the Executive Director representing the United States to vote against any loan, any extension of financial assistance, or any technical assistance to any country which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, including torture or cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment, prolonged detention without charges, or other flagrant denial of the right to life, liberty, and the security of person, and including providing refuge to individuals committing acts of international terrorism such as the hijacking of an aircraft, unless such assistance will directly benefit the needy people in such country. (b) In determining whether this standard is being met with regard to activities of the African Development Fund, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate or the House Committee on International Relations, or the House Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing may require the United States Governor of the Bank to submit in writing information demonstrating that such loan or assistance will directly benefit those persons in such country to which such loan or assistance is supposed to be directed, together with a detailed explanation of the assistance to be provided (including the dollar amounts of such assistance) and an explanation of how such assistance will directly benefit such persons in such country. (b) In determining whether or not a country falls within the pro-visions of subsection (a), the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on International Relations and the House Committee on Banking. Currency and Housing shall give consideration to the extent of cooperation of such country in permitting an unimpeded investigation of alleged violations of internationally recognized human rights by appropriate international organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, or groups or persons acting under the authority of the United Nations or of the Organization of American States.