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Realizing the Right to Development

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  • Arjun Sengupta

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The Right to Development as established in the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development has now been recognized, through an international consensus arrived at in Vienna in 1993, as a universal and inalienable right and an integral part of fundamental human rights. That has not, of course, settled all the controversy regarding the nature and the content of the Right to Development, but the inter‐governmental debate has shifted more to the methods of implementation of that Right. This article reviews the nature and contents of the Right to Development by virtue of which every individual is entitled to a process of economic, social, cultural and political development in which all human and fundamental freedoms can be realized. It spells out a programme for implementation of the Right, step by step, through national efforts supported by international co‐operation. While the states are primarily responsible for realizing this Right for their citizens, the international community has the obligation of enabling the states to do so. A mechanism is proposed through international compacts to design, promote and monitor the process of implementation.

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  • Arjun Sengupta, 2000. "Realizing the Right to Development," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 31(3), pages 553-578, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:31:y:2000:i:3:p:553-578
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00167
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    1. Emma Tomalin, 2006. "Religion and a rights-based approach to development," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 6(2), pages 93-108, April.
    2. Gibbs, Meredith, 2005. "The right to development and indigenous peoples: Lessons from New Zealand," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 33(8), pages 1365-1378, August.
    3. Nelson, Paul J. & Dorsey, Ellen, 2003. "At the Nexus of Human Rights and Development: New Methods and Strategies of Global NGOs," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 31(12), pages 2013-2026, December.
    4. Emmaculate Tsitsi Ngwerume, 2022. "Bridging the Gap Between Socio-Economic Rights and Development in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe’s 2013 Constitution," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 6(6), pages 122-129, June.

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