Abstract
The 1982 report of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on development and human rights starts off with the following quotation: ‘It is the common lot of development policy and human rights to receive more honour in rhetoric than in reality’.1 Mindful of this sobering observation and having in view a United Nations perspective, we may put to ourselves some questions which deserve reflection. These questions are:
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Where are we now in the human rights and development debate;
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What kind of development do we have in mind;
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Are human rights and development separate or integrated notions;
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What are the responsibilities of peoples and states?
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See on the structural approach: Philip Alston, ‘Development and the Rule of Law: Prevention versus Cure as a Human Rights Strategy’, in Development, Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Report of a Conference held in the Hague on 27 April–1 May 1981, convened by the International Commission of Jurists (New York: Pergamon Press, 1981) pp. 33–108 (at pp. 43–5).
Moses Moskowitz, ‘Implementing Human Rights: Present Status and Future Prospects’, in B. J. Ramcharan (ed.), Human Rights, Thirty years after the Universal Declaration (1979) pp. 109–30 (at p. 130).
Asbjrn Eide, Choosing the Paths to Development: National Options and International Regulation, Working Paper prepared for the UN Seminar on the Effects of the Existing Unjust International Economic Order on the Economies of the Developing Countries and the Obstacle that this represents for the Implementation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Geneva 30 June–11 July 1980 (doc. HR/GENEVA/1980/WP.12, page 9).
World Bank, International Implications for Donor Countries and Agencies of Meeting Basic Human Rights, 1977 (unpublished).
World Bank, Economic Development and Tribal Peoples, Human Ecologic Considerations, July 1981, p. iii.
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Van Boven, T. (1989). Human Rights and Development: The UN Experience. In: Forsythe, D.P. (eds) Human Rights and Development. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19967-9_8
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