General Documents on the Human Rights-Based Approach
The human rights-based approach to development in the UN in the context of the new development goals
Maria Luisa Silva, OHCHR.
This is the documentation of a presentation given on the Human Rights based approach to development in the UN. It deals with the UN rationale behind this approach; focuses on the definition and the strategies used, as well as on the results achieved and some of the critical issues which still need to be addressed. It concludes by referring to the relevance of the HRBA to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
Topical Research Digest - Rights-Based Approaches to Development
University of Denver, International Development, HRHW.
This digest offers a multidimensional, well-chosen, and timely compilation of resources analyzing the myriad relationships between fields devoted to the realization of human rights and human development. It has collated references to work that discuss substantive, and empirical dimensions of the human rights/development nexus; key debates among theoreticians, policy-makers, and practitioners concerning this nexus; inclusive analysis of institutional frameworks and actors; and which draw attention to both opportunities for, and challenges to, the realization of increasingly holistic and converging visions of human rights and sustainable human development.
A Rights-Based Approach to Development:An Exploration of Cultural Relativism and Universality in Human Rights.
Author: by Lyndsey EllisBrandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Program in Sustainable International Development, April, 2006.
This essay defines a rights-based approach to development and distinguishes it from a needs based approach. It also examines the plausibility of incorporating such a strategy into the practice of development as well as the practicality of enforcing human rights in diverse cultural settings. It discusses the idea that in order for human rights to have legitimacy, especially in light of the critique that such standards are another example of Westernization and based on Western values and norms, there must be a process of integration that originates from within a culture.
Rules to Live by: The Human Rights Approach to Development
Andre Frankovits – The Fletcher Journal of Development Studies Volume XVII, 2002.
This article looks at the question: How can the international human rights framework help to target development efforts more effectively, ensure increased sustainability, and impact positively on poverty reduction? It puts forward points that must be considered and principles to be observed for to see human rights impact development positively and successfully.
Reinventing Development?
Translating Rights-Based Approaches from Theory into Practice
Edited by Paul Gready and Jonathan Ensor.
The recognition that the persistence of poverty is closely linked to the denial of human rights has propelled rights-based approaches into the policy and practice of many development NGOs, UN bodies and aid agencies. This book presents the practical experiences of development practitioners who have tried to apply a rights-based approach in their work. Its aim is to increase understanding of the approach by drawing on bottom-up insights, and to identify what difference a rights-based approach makes in practice. What is the 'value added' of a rights-based approach? What difficulties and tensions arise? The case-studies span development, humanitarian relief and conflict resolution. The book concludes that there is potential not only for human rights to reinvent development, but for development to reinvent human rights.
Globalisation and the Human Rights Approach to Development
S. R. Osmani, University of Ulster, UK, June 2005.
This paper examines the implications of the current wave of globalisation for the pursuit of a human right approach to development. The notion that individuals have rights, which they can claim, and that there are some actors who are obliged to meet those claims, is an immensely empowering one. Once policy making is required to conform to the framework of human rights, the rationale of development policies changes in a fundamental way. Policies are no longer driven merely by the recognition that people have needs that ought to be fulfilled but also that they have rights that entail legal obligations on the part of the state and other relevant actors.
Human Rights Approach to Intellectual Property Protection: The Genesis and Application of Sub-Commission Resolution 2000/7
Minnesota IP Review, David Weissbrodt and Kell Schoff, 2003.
In 2000, the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights adopted Resolution 2000/7, entitled “Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights”. This article reviews efforts to modify global trade and finance in light of human rights concerns, including what steps have been taken by the U.N. and other international norm-setting institutions in response to the Sub-Commission’s call for increased awareness and integration of human rights norms into intellectual property protection regimes. It also summarizes what the Sub-Commission hopes will be its next steps in promoting a human rights approach to international intellectual property protection and trade liberalization.
Human Rights and Human Development
UNDP Human Development Report 2000.
The Human Rights-Based Approach to Development Cooperation: Towards a Common Understanding Among UN Agencies
Statement agreed at the Stamford Workshop (the Stamford Common Understanding) and endorsed by the UNDG Programme Group, 2003.
Human Rights and Poverty Reduction: A Conceptual Framework
OHCHR, 2004.
On High Moral Ground: The Incorporation of Human Rights by the Development Enterprise
Peter Uvin, PRAXIS: The Fletcher Journal of Human Security, Vol. 17, 2002.
A Response to Peter Uvin. Making Moral Low Ground: Rights as the Struggle for Justice and the Abolition of Development
Hugo Slim, PRAXIS: The Fletcher Journal of Human Security, Vol. 17, 2002.
Human Rights and Development
Peter Uvin. Kumarian Press, 2004 (Introduction only).
Mainstreaming Human Rights: The Human Rights-Based Approach and the United Nations System
Andre Frankovits. Human Rights Council of Australia, 2005.
Human Rights in Developing Countries: How can development cooperation contribute to furthering their advancement
International Policy Dialogue, convened by the Development Policy Forum of InWEnt-Capacity Building International, Germany and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in cooperation with the German Development Institute (GDI). September 2003.
Can Development Work Without Human Rights?
Global Future: A World Vision Journal of Human Development, 2003.
The Human Rights Framework for Development: Seven Approaches
Stephen P. Marks. Working Paper No. 18. François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University, 2003.
Economic Theory, Freedom and Human Rights: The Work of Amartya Sen
Briefing Paper. Overseas Development Institute, November 2001.
The Ends and Means of Sustainability
Amartya Sen. Keynote Address at the International Conference on Transition to Sustainability, May 2000.
Realising Human Rights for Poor People: Strategies for Achieving the International Development Targets
UK Department of International Development, October 2000.
To Claim Our Rights: Livelihood Security, Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Caroline Moser and Andy Norton. Overseas Development Institute, June 2001.
What Can We Do with a Rights-Based Approach to Development?
Briefing Paper. Overseas Development Institute, September 1999.
A Rights-Based Approach to Development
A presentation by Jorge Daniel Taillant to the World Social Forum Seminar on Globalization and Human Dignity, March 2, 2002.
Rights-Based Development: The Challenge of Change and Power
Jennifer Chapman, Global Poverty Research Group. Presented at the conference “The Winners and Losers from Rights Based Approaches to Development”, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, 21-22 February 2005.
To Claim Our Rights: Livelihood Security, Human Rights and Sustainable Development
Caroline Moser and Andy Norton, Overseas Development Institute 2001.