Development and Rights

The fiftieth anniversary of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights prompts a re-examination of the links between 'development' and the range of economic, social, political, and cultural rights that are enshrined within it. Chronic poverty is a flagrant denial of what the international community once hailed as the basic rights and fundamental freedoms on which our humanity and security must rest. The papers in this collection consider, among other entitlements, the right to food, adequate housing, safe employment, protection from sexual assault, and popular involvement in the political processes that shape the lives of poor communities.

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Preface
Deborah Eade

The depoliticisation of poverty
Firoze Manji

The humanitarian responsibilities of the UN Security Council: ensuring the security the people
Juan Somavía

African rural labour and the World Bank: an alternative perspective
Deborah Fahy Bryceson and John Howe

Empowerment and survival: humanitarian work in civil conflict
Martha Thompson

The global struggle for the right to a place to live
Miloon Kothari

Agrarian reform: a continuing imperative or an anachronism?
Cristina Liamzon

The ethics of immigration controls: issues for development NGOs
Andy Storey

The right to protection from sexual assault: the Indian anti-rape campaign
Geetanjali Gangoli

Guatemala: uncovering the past, recovering the future
Elizabeth Lira

Strengthening unions: the case of irrigated agriculture in the Brazilian north-east
Didier Bloch

All rights guaranteed – all actors accountable: poverty is a violation of human rights
Grahame Russell

Collective memory and the process of reconciliation and reconstruction
Wiseman Chirwa

Devastation by leather tanneries in Tamil Nadu
John-Paul Baskar

Annotated Bibliography

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