Introduction - Part 1

The idea of the right to development and the formal acknowledgment that it is an internationally recognized human right pre-date the adoption of the Declaration on the Right to Development in 1986. The purpose of the first part of this book is to provide the context for the emergence of the right as an international human right and to recall the substantive understandings that prevailed at the inception and early formulation of the right and demonstrate the relevance of these understandings today.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development