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The role of international law

While there is a fairly broad consensus on the underlying principles of the right to development, the most intense political division is between, on the one hand, the Non-Aligned Movement, whose Heads of State and Government have called for the United Nations to draft a convention on the right to development, and, on the other, the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan and others, which have strongly opposed this idea. The Working Group on the Right to Development has been able to achieve consensus by keeping a legally binding instrument among the possible outcomes of the process, without establishing that the process must automatically lead there. The key language in this regard is that the process “could evolve into a basis for consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature, through a collaborative process of engagement”.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development
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