From the right to development to the rights-based approach: how ‘human rights’ entered development

Peter Uvin

Development in Practice, 2007, vol. 17, issue 4-5, 597-606

Abstract: This article offers an intellectual genealogy of how the concept of human rights has entered the development discourse—from the formulation of a ‘right to development’ to the rhetorical incorporation of rights within prevailing discourse, to the articulation of a ‘rights-based approach’ to development. It concludes with some propositions about the important role that a focus on rights might play in the practice of international development.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/09614520701469617

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