Development as a Human Right (Paperback)

Bard-Anders Andreassen

ISBN 10: 9400000227 / ISBN 13: 9789400000223

Published by Intersentia Publishers, Antwerp, 2010

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Paperback. With a contribution by Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen and forewords by Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Louise Arbour, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights The relationship between the processes of economic development and international human rights standards has been one of parallel and rarely intersecting tracks of international action. In the last decade of the 20th century, development thinking shifted from a growth-oriented model to the concept of human development as a process of enhancing human capabilities, and the intrinsic links between development and human rights began to be more readily acknowledged. Specifically, it has been proposed that if strategies of development and policies to implement human rights are united, they reinforce one another in processes of synergy and improvement of the human condition. Such is the premise of the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1986.This book explores the meaning and practical implications of the right to development and the related term of human rights-based approaches to development and questions what these conceptions may add to our understanding and thinking about human and global development. Opening with an essay by Nobel Laureate in Economic Science Amartya Sen on human rights and development, the book contains a score of chapters on the conceptual underpinnings of development as a human right, the national dimensions of this right, and the role of international institutions. The authors reflect the disciplines of philosophy, economics, international law, and international relations. This 2nd edition of the book, originally published in 2006, has been completely updated. Most essays presented at The Nobel Symposium on the Right to Development and Human Rights in Development (Oslo, 2003) and originally published in 2006. Essays revised and updated with a new foreword. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Development as a Human Right (Paperback)
• Publisher: Intersentia Publishers, Antwerp
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9400000227
• ISBN 13: 9789400000223
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This book explores the meaning and practical implications of the right to development and the related term of human rights-based approaches to development and ask what these conceptions may add to our understanding and thinking about human and global development.

About the Author

Bård A. Andreassen is Professor at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights and Director of Research (human rights and development) at the Law Faculty, University of Oslo.Stephen P. Marks is François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Senior Fellow at the University Committee on Human Rights Studies at Harvard.