(a) basic nature of development;
(b) international obligation of solidarity for development;
(c) moral interdependence;
(d) economic interconnections;
(e) maintenance of international peace; and
(f) ethical responsibility of reparation.16
According to Arjun Sengupta, there are two descriptions of the right to development:
a substantial perception as a proper right, and a procedural consideration.17 The main
components of the right to development are:
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public-centred development;
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human rights-based approach;
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participation;
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equity;
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non-discrimination; and
•
self-determination.18
The right to development seeks development as an inclusive concept, comprising of
non-discrimination and equal opportunity for everyone. The contents of the right to
development are identified as:
(1) use of third generation of human rights in new areas of international pursuit;
(2) an umbrella right consisting of all rights;
(3) people’s rights influenced by the development process to implement their human
rights;
(4) a sum of economic, social and cultural rights;
(5) economic aspect of the right to development; and
(6) right to specific method and means of development.19
The real basis of the right to development finds its justification in the obligation
to demonstrate solidarity, linked to Articles 1 and 28 of the UDHR. The right to
‘The Emergence of the Right to Development: Report of the Secretary General’ 7, 9-10 in UNHuman
Rights Office of the High Commissioner, Realizing the Rights to Development: Essays in Commemoration of 25 Years of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development. (New York / Geneva
2013).
17
UN General Assembly, 55th Sess., Item 116 (b) of the Provisional Agenda, Report of the Independent
Expert on the Right to Development (A/55/306, 17 August 2000), 6, para. 22.
18
UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, Supranote 15, at 1-2.
19
Khandakar Farzana Rehman, ‘Linkage Between Rights to Development and Right Based Approach:
An Overview’(2010) 1 Northern University Journal of Law 98.
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