Realizing the Right to Development: eBook

Background

This book’s overall purpose is to draw on over three decades of experience with the right to development, going beyond political posturing to analyse its constituent principles and actual applications in development practice, and potential implementation in the years to come.

The essays that comprise the 33 chapters in this book attempt to put flesh on the bones of the Declaration by examining the multiple dimensions of the right to development. The contributions not only clarify the meaning and status of this right but also examine the most salient challenges—based on actual development practice—to its transformative potential.

PREAMBLE

Note
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction

PART ONE: SITUATING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 1: The emergence of the right to development
Chapter 2: The Declaration on the Right to Development in the context of United Nations standard-setting
Chapter 3: The challenge of implementing the right to development in the 1990s
Chapter 4: Conceptualizing the right to development for the twenty-first century

PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 5: Self-determination of peoples and sovereignty over natural wealth and resources
Chapter 6: Active, free and meaningful participation in development
Chapter 7: Equality, non-discrimination and fair distribution of the benefits of development
Chapter 8: The human rights-based approach to development in the era of globalization
Chapter 9: A human rights approach to democratic governance and development
Chapter 10: Poverty
Chapter 11: Women, human rights and development
Chapter 12: Indigenous peoples
Chapter 13: Global governance: old and new challenges
Chapter 14: International solidarity in an interdependent world

PART THREE: COOPERATING FOR THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 15: A right to development critique of Millennium Development Goal 8
Chapter 16: Development, good governance and South-South cooperation: the African Peer Review Mechanism
Chapter 17: The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
Chapter 18: Mainstreaming the right to development into the World Trade Organization
Chapter 19: The Cotonou Agreement and economic partnership agreements
Chapter 20: Debt relief and sustainability
Chapter 21: Sovereign debt and human rights
Chapter 22: The Intergovernmental Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property
Chapter 23: Climate change, sustainable development and the clean development mechanism

PART FOUR: IMPLEMENTING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 24: The indicators framework of OHCHR applied to the right to development
Chapter 25: The right to development and implementation of the Millennium Development Goals
Chapter 26: National experience with the right to development
Chapter 27: A regional perspective: article 22 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Chapter 28: Towards operational criteria and a monitoring framework
Chapter 29: Theory into practice: a new framework and proposed assessment criteria
Chapter 30: The high-level task force criteria
Chapter 31: The role of international law
Chapter 32: The right to development in practice: provisional lessons learned
Chapter 33: The right to development at 25: renewal and achievement of its potential
Realizing the Right to Development and a new development agenda

ANNEXES

Annex I: Declaration on the Right to Development
Annex II: Overview of United Nations mechanisms on the right to development
Selected bibliography
Back cover