From the right to development to the rights-based approach: how ‘human rights’ entered development |
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Authors: | Peter Uvin |
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Affiliation: | Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy , Tufts University , 160 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA, 02155-7082, USA E-mail: peter.uvin@tufts.edu |
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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. |
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Keywords: | Rights Aid |
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