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See also section of this website entitled "Poverty / Development / Economic, social & cultural rights".

United Nations Development Programme websites:

• Human Rights and Development: UNDP and the protection of human rights

• A Programme Note: Implementing a Rights-Based Approach to Development in the Asia Region (UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific):

• Executive Summary

• Human Rights & Development - An Emerging Nexus

• A Rights-Based Approach to Governance

• A Rights-Based Approach to Gender

• A Rights-Based Approach to Environment

• A Rights-Based Approach to Poverty

• Programme Development within a Rights and Development Framework

Other websites:

Basic Documents on Economic and Social Rights (Center on Economic and Social Rights)

Development and Human Rights: The Role of the World Bank (World Bank)

Five Examples of Economic and Social Rights (Center for Economic and Social Rights)

Human Rights in Development (François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health)

Johannesburg 2002: World Summit on Sustainable Development (United Nations)

Right to Development (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)

What are Economic and Social Rights? (Center for Economic and Social Rights)

Why do Economic and Social Rights Matter? (Center for Economic and Social Rights)

Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal

Other materials:

Speech by Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights - Civil Society Workshop on Human Rights, Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection - World Summit on Sustainable Development -...The interdependence of human rights, environment protection and sustainable development has been described using the metaphor of a triangle. (Mary Robinson, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1 Sep. 2002)

Address by Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - World Summit on Sustainable Development Plenary Session -...Let me ask and try to answer the question-- how does a human rights approach help in achieving sustainable development? (Mary Robinson, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, 29 Aug. 2002)

A Rights Based Approach to Development: Presentation to the World Social Forum Seminar on Globalization and Human Dignity - Porto Allegre (Jorge Daniel Taillant, Executive Director of CEDHA - Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente/Center for Human Rights and Environment, 2 Mar. 2002)

The Rights Based Approach to Development: Indivisibility and Interdependence of ALL Human Rights (presentation to World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, by Colm O'Cuanachain, Chairperson, International Executive Committee, Amnesty International, 1 Feb. 2002) note: the correct date of this presentation is 1 Feb. 2002

2001:

World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance - Address by UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown - Durban, South Africa (speech by Mark Malloch Brown, U.N. Development Programme Administrator, 1 Sep. 2001)

• UNDP calls for global culture of human rights at World Conference Against Racism: At a global conference on racism, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is underscoring the need for concrete steps to combat intolerance and racial discrimination as a way of helping the world meet development targets...UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown...said that UNDP understands the inextricable link between human rights and human development and, thus, has adopted a rights-based approach to development. "This approach places people at the centre of our efforts to address their economic, social, cultural, political and civil rights." (press release, U.N. Development Programme, 30 Aug. 2001)

Rule of Law Central to Fighting Poverty: World Bank President Calls on Governments to Recognize the Link Between Law and Development - World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn today called on governments and the international community to recognize that "an effective legal and judicial system is not a luxury, but a key component of a well-functioning state and an essential ingredient in long-term development." (World Bank, 9 July 2001)

A matter of rights: New video series explores the right to development - The first ever video film series exploring development as a human right was launched on Thursday in Bangkok (Bangkok Post, 30 Apr. 2001)

Local control vital for reducing poverty, say African ministers (U.N. Development Programme, 30 Mar. 2001)

Inquiry into the link between aid and human rights: Submission by the Human Rights Council of Australia [to Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade] (Human Rights Council of Australia, Feb. 2001)

The link between aid and human rights: Submission to the Human Rights Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (Oxfam/Community Aid Abroad [Australia], Jan. 2001)

2000:

Working Together: The Human Rights Based Approach to Development Cooperation - Stockholm Workshop 16-19 October 2000 (Human Rights Council of Australia, Oct. 2000)

Profits or Human Rights? The Development Answer Is 'Both' (Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, UNDP, in International Herald Tribune, 21 July 2000)

United Nations Inter-sessional Workshop on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Right to Development in the Asia-Pacific Region, Sana'a, Yemen, 5 to 7 February 2000 (United Nations, Feb. 2000)

• Statement by Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Feb. 2000)

• Background paper by Andre Frankovits (Feb. 2000)

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Guide to the Legal Framework (Center for Economic & Social Rights, Jan. 2000)

Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development (U.N. Development Programme)

• {···español: Informe sobre Desarollo Humano 2000}

• {···français: Rapport mondial sur le developpement humain 2000}

UNDP Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development Background Papers (U.N. Development Programme, 2000):

• Human Rights in Action: Cambodia Country Study (Kassie Neou, 2000)

• Human Rights and Human Development: Thailand Country Study (Vitit Muntarbhorn, 2000)

• {···español} Informe Sobre Desarrollo Humano 2000: Desarrollo Humano Y Derechos Humanos En Chile (Jorge Correa Sutil, 2000)

• Human Rights, Environment and Development: With Special Emphasis on Corporate Accountability (Ayesha Dias, 2000)

• Rules of International Economic Integration and Human Rights (Jayati Ghosh, 2000)

• Human Rights and Human Development: Learning from Those Who Act (Nadia Hijab, 2000)

• Human Development and Human Rights - South African Country Study (Sandra Liebenberg, 2000)

• Human Rights and Human Development: India (Dr. Vina Mazumdar, Prof. Lotika Sarker and Prof. S.P. Sathe, 2000)

• Separate and Unequal: Trade and Human Rights Regimes (Roger Normand, 2000)

• Regional Study on Human Development and Human Rights - Central Asia (Martha Olcott, 2000)

• Human Rights and Sustainable Development in Contemporary Africa: A New Dawn, or Retreating Horizons? (Joseph Oloka-Onyango, 2000)

• Regional Study on Human Development and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe (Darko Silovic, 2000)

• {···français} Droits de la Personne et Developpement Humain Au Rwanda: 1984-1999 Bilan et Perspectives (Jean Rubaduka and Noël Twagiramungu, 2000)

1999:

Honoring The Anniversary Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights: CARE helps deliver the promise of rights for all (CARE, 10 Dec. 1999)

Human rights, development and business ethics (Leiv Lunde, State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 21 Jan. 1999)

Aid and Rights: An Agenda for NGOs - A Rights Way to Development Action Pack (Human Rights Council of Australia, 1999)

1998:

Human Development and Human Rights: Report on the Oslo Symposium, 2-3 Oct. 1998 (UNDP, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

• Poverty is a Denial of Human Rights (press release about the symposium, Oct. 1998)

• Keynote Address: Hilde Frafjord Johnson (Hilde Frafjord Johnson, Minister of International Development and Human Rights, Norway)

• Keynote Address: Mary Robinson (Mary Robinson, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights)

• Keynote Address: James Gustave Speth (Administrator, UNDP)

• Interdependence Issues under the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Martin Scheinin)

• Conceptual Issues in Human Development and Human Rights (Babashola Chinsman, E. Oladipo and K. Kamaluddeen)

• Human Rights and Human Development (Sakiko Fukuda-Parr)

• Human Rights and Sustainable Human Development: How Development is a Necessary Means to Promote and Protect Human Rights (Shirley Mabusela)

• Reflections on Human Development and Human Rights (Paul Hunt)

• A Human Rights Approach to Human Development (Julia Hausermann)

• Incorporating Human Rights into Mainstream "Human" Development Strategies: Why? And How? (James Paul)

• Human Rights and Their Indicators (Paul Streeten)

• Human Rights, Policy Frameworks, and the Role of the State and the Market in Fulfilling Economic and Social Rights (Asbjørn Eide)

• Human Rights, Economic Policy Frameworks, and the Roles of the State and the Market in Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (Dominique Ait-Ouyahia McAdams)

• Human Rights, Economic Policy Frameworks, and the Roles of the State and the Market in Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights (Anthony Woodfield)

• Rights, Markets and Globalization: East Asian Experience (Yash Ghai)

• The Promotion of Fundamental Labour Standards: Sanctions or Cooperation? (Erik Chrispeels)

• Human Rights and Human Development (Solita Monsod)

• Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and International Trade (Lee Swepston)

• Mobilisation for Women's Human Rights (Charlotte Bunch)

• The Directions of Development Cooperation (Bernard Wood)

• A Human Rights Approach in Development Activities and the Requirements for its Operationalisation (Marta Santos-Pais)

• Strategy for the Operationalisation of an Integrated Human Rights-Based Approach to Human Development (André Frankovitz)

• Health as a Human Right in the Context of Human Development and the Mission of UNDP (Jane G. Schaller)

Human Rights for Human Development conference (press release, International Conference on Human Rights, Yalta, Ukraine, Sep. 1998)

Integrating human rights with sustainable human development: A UNDP policy document (UN Development Programme, Jan. 1998)

UNDP: Linking Human Rights and Development (UN Development Programme, 1998)

• {···español:  PNUD: Vinculación entre los derechos humanos y el desarrollo}

• {···français: PNUD: Prendre en compte les droits de la personne dans le développement}

Manual for a Human Rights Approach to Development Assistance (Human Rights Council of Australia, 1998)

1997:

Implementing a Human Rights Approach to Development: Views from some Thai human rights and development NGOs (Forum Asia with the Human Rights Council of Australia, Report on Bangkok Workshop, Development Assistance for Realising Rights, 29 Sep. 1997)

1995:

Symposium Papers - A Human Rights Approach to Development (Human Rights Council of Australia, Feb. 1995)

• The Human Rights Approach to Development: Introduction  (André Frankovits)

• The Rights Framework and Development Assistance (Philip Alston)

• The Human Rights Approach to Development Assistance: The indigenous perspective (Patricia Turner)

• Development and Aid in Situations of Ethnic Conflict (Charles Abeysekera)

• The Rights Way to Development: Challenges and Opportunities (Clarence Dias)

• Human Rights and Aid: An Australian Parliamentary Perspective (Senator Stephen Loosley)

• A test for the Rights Way to Development (Sidney Jones)