each person to freely choose economic and social model of development without outside interference.11 So far as the ambit and content of the right to development is concerned, the respect for human rights is a prerequisite for the development of human personality. This needs a national as well as an international environment to identify the collective aspect of development with the possibility of each state to ensure free and full growth of the potential of its individuals.12 Thus, the constituents of the right to development include: (a) right to participation as an essential characteristic of all kinds of development; (b) human centric development putting people first and supporting their development; (c) right to fair distribution of benefits of economic development for states; (d) right to non-discrimination in development without distinction of race, sex, religion, political opinion, nationality of origin, property, birth or other status; and (e) right to self-determination to include inalienable right to full sovereignty over all their natural wealth and resources.13 2. Right to Development The conceptual evolution of the right to development started with the UN Declaration on the Establishment of New International Economic Order (NIEO). It became a process of vehicle for the concretisation and promotion of this right, while the Charter of the Economic Rights and Duties of States specially mentioned respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the promotion of international social justice among the fundamental principles of international economic relations.14 The right to development places people at the heart of the development process, so that development is intended to advance “the well-being of the entire population and of all individuals on the basis of their active, free and meaningful participation in development and in the fair distribution” of the consistent advantages.15 The ethical bearing of the right to development has the practical glimpse in the best interest of all states to endorse the universal accomplishment of the right as well as the fundamental philosophical value underlying the right to development in its expansive sense. These include points as under: Henry J. Steiner & Philip Alston, International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2000), 1321-1323. 12 S.K. Verma, ‘Development, Human Rights and Globalization of Economy’ (1998) 40 Journal of Indian Law Institute 220; Ved P. Nanda, ‘Development as an Emerging Human Right under International Law’, (1984) 13 Denver Journal of International Law & Policy 161. 13 Verma, Supra note 6, at 12. 14 UN, General Assembly Official Records, 6th Spl. Sess., 2229th Mtg. [GA Resolution 3201 (S-VI), 1 May 1974]. 15 UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, Development and Human Rights: OHCHR and the Right to Development, 2. 11 4 Journal of the National Human Rights Commission, Vol. 22, 2023