From the right to development to the rights-based approach: how ‘human rights’ entered development
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- 1 August 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Development in Practice
- Vol. 17 (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.Keywords
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