The right to development at 25: Renewal and achievement of its potential

After 25 years, the Declaration on the Right to Development continues to seek to establish the principal attributes of the right to development as a vector of all rights; as a detector of incoherence in norms and policies on human rights, trade and development at both national and international levels; and as a framework for reinforcing the indivisibility and universality of human rights, as well as for sustainable and equitable growth. Going beyond mere human rights-based approaches to development, the right to development framework underscores the requirement for a specific and qualified process of development that must itself be a human right. Such a process constitutes the environment to which every person and all peoples are entitled.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development