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The Rights Way to Development - Policy and Practice

This easily accessible new publication from the Human Rights Council of Australia revises and brings together two earlier publications – “The Rights Way to Development – A Human Rights Approach to Development Assistance” and “The Rights Way to Development – Manual for a Human Rights Approach to Development Assistance“. It outlines the conceptual basis of the human rights approach to development, as well as providing practical guidance for development programmers interested in applying the approach.

The human rights approach to development takes the International Bill of Rights as the framework for the design and delivery of development aid – using commitments to the realisation of human rights as the basis of efforts to end poverty – nationally and internationally. International human rights agreements set out the rights of the poor and the obligations and duties of governments to respect, protect and fulfill these rights. Translating these obligations and duties into national and international development programs and budgets is the challenge being taken on by an increasing number of government and non-government development agencies. This book aims to contribute constructively to these efforts.

The new volume also includes the May 2001 Statement on Poverty by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Executive Summary of “Working Together” (the reports of the Stockholm workshop on the human rights approach to development) and some tools for conducting human rights analysis of development challenges. It also contains some useful web addresses and contacts. With the human rights approach increasingly on the agenda, this book provides much-sought answers on what it really means.

“Their ideas are challenging. This group is asking the right questions”

Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Rights Way to Development – Policy and Practice can be ordered for $30 plus postage from pearles@optusnet.com.au or check www.hrca.org.au for more information.

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