The United Nations, Human Rights, and Development
@article{Forsythe1997TheUN,
title={The United Nations, Human Rights, and Development},
author={David P. Forsythe},
journal={Human Rights Quarterly},
year={1997},
volume={19},
pages={334 - 349}
}Development has always been a contested concept. Like other concepts such as peace, security, and human rights, development has been the focus of much debate at the United Nations. Quite clearly in the early history of the United Nations, development referred essentially to national macroeconomic growth.' In an evolutionary process that began approximately with the 1972 UN Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment,2 development acquired the notion of pursuit of economic growth combined with…
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