The Challenges of Ensuring the Mutuality of Human Rights and Development Endeavours
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The focus of this volume is on ways in which the strengths, resources, and support of the international human rights and development communities can be mobilized in order to reinforce one another in their efforts to achieve shared goals. Endeavours to promote meaningful and productive linkages between the agendas of these two communities are hardly new. Indeed, one of the main achievements of the first World Conference on Human Rights, held in Teheran in 1968, was precisely its assertion that ‘the achievement of lasting progress in the implementation of human rights is dependent upon sound and effective national and international policies of economic and social development’. Almost a decade later, in 1977, the UN Commission on Human Rights gave a new impetus to these efforts by proclaiming the existence of a human right to development. That in turn led to the launching of a major push by developing countries to broaden the focus of international human rights debates to include a range of economic and other issues which had previously been considered to lie squarely and exclusively within the domain of the national and international development agencies.
Source Publication
Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement
Source Editors/Authors
Philip Alston, Mary Robinson
Publication Date
2005
Recommended Citation
Alston, Philip G. and Robinson, Mary, "The Challenges of Ensuring the Mutuality of Human Rights and Development Endeavours" (2005). Faculty Chapters. 2063.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/2063
