The vision of human rights promoted by figures associated with LSF was far from being what Samuel Moyn calls a 'powerless companion' of ascendant neoliberalism. Rather, LSF's leadership drew on the rejection of structuralist economic analyses and redistribution pioneered by rising neoliberal thinkers, and used the language of human rights to shift responsibility for poverty from international economic arrangements onto Third World states. LSF offers a particularly stark example of a more general phenomenon – the uptake of neoliberal ideas by human rights NGOs in the period of their simultaneous rise.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 381