The Politics of Human Rights and Development

The Challenge for Official Donors

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6233987
AutoresThomas W D Davis, Thomas W Davis (The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume44
Fascículo1
Páginas173-192
Data de publicação2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10361140802657110
OpenAlexW2017569583
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas59

This article examines the ‘right to development’ and ‘rights-based approaches to development’, highlighting how each defines development and the degree to which they have been adopted by official donors in their policies and programs. The article then focuses on criticisms relating to justice, participation, empowerment and agency that uncover both the conceptual limitations of the rights–development nexus and the limitations of donor capacity to engage with these ‘radical’ critiques. An approach toward resolving these criticisms, drawing on the implications of rights for the political act of public reasoning and transnational ‘citizenship’, is briefly set out in the final section of the article under the broad title of rights-based development. Notes 1The Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted 4 Dec. 1986, G.A. Res. 41/128 U.N. GAOR, 41st Sess., at 3, Annex, U.N. Doc. A/Res/41/128 Annex (1987). 2UNCTAD was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body and the General Assembly's principal organ for dealing with trade, investment and development. Additional informationNotes on contributorsThomas W. D. Davis Dr Thomas W. D. Davis lectures in public policy for the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. He has recently completed a major report, World Bank ‘Post-Crisis’ Multi Donor Trust Funds, and has a book (with Brian Galligan) forthcoming on Human Rights in Asia. Tom is also convenor of the University of Melbourne Human Rights Forum

Agency (philosophy · Citizenship · Declaration · Human rights · Law and economics · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Right to development · Social science · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Public Administration