• DOI:10.1353/HRQ.2001.0055
• Corpus ID: 144211362

A Human Rights Approach to Development

@article{Hamm2001AHR,
  title={A Human Rights Approach to Development},
  author={Brigitte Hamm},
  journal={Human Rights Quarterly},
  year={2001},
  volume={23},
  pages={1005 - 1031}
}

• Brigitte Hamm
• Published 1 November 2001
• Political Science
• Human Rights Quarterly

The end of the Cold War has supported the emergence of a more differentiated view of both global problems and the challenges that globalization brings to international relations. This change in perception has its repercussions on human rights. More and more, the equal status of all human rights is recognized in practice; economic, as well as social rights, become a major issue not only in the debate over human rights, but also in the practical human rights policy of both states and international organizations. Part of this rethinking is the rapprochement of development and human rights policy in a so-called human rights approach to development. The Human Development Report 2000 published by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a prominent example of this discussion.1 I understand development and human rights as being interdependent. A human rights approach to development recognizes primarily the legal obligation of members of human rights treaties to development cooperation and development efforts and so goes beyond human rights as the content of development policy. The inclusion of this obligation into the human rights monitoring system of the United Nations (UN) is part of such an approach. This article discusses different views concerning a human rights approach to development as a relatively new stream of thinking within the development and human rights context. Questions considered are: What