of the right to development; this should be read together with the acknowledgement in the Preamble to the UN Declaration to the principles of “international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian nature and… promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms” as incorporated in the UN Charter.26 Article 8 of the UN Declaration on the Right to Development provides more specifically that in accomplishing the right to development, states shall assure “equality of opportunity for all in their access to basic resources, education, health services, food, housing, employment and the fair distribution of income,” and take constructive actions to make certain that “women have an active role in the development process,” as well as implement “[a]ppropriate economic and social reforms… with a view to eradicating all social injustices.” Thus, the UN Declaration on the Right to Development obviously specifies that the main responsibility for realising the right to development belongs to states and that individuals are the beneficiaries. The international community has the duty to equip states in carrying out that obligation. But the obligation to realise the right to development through international cooperation needs the realisation of the right in careful manner in conjunction with sustainable growth of the economy and suitable changes to its structure.27 Considering the nature and scope of the right to development as one of the components of the third generation of human rights under international law, it is worth examining the human rights-based approach to the right to development (development as a process promoting the implementation of human rights). This perspective of study will inter alia take into account (1) the connect between development and human right (interrelated and interdependent human rights); (2) individual and collective dimensions (acknowledgement of the right to development as both an individual and collective right); and (3) international solidarity (responsibilities of nation states and international society to fulfil the right to development).28 4. Human Rights-based Approach The human rights-based approach to the right to development is a conceptual framework for the process of development dependant on international human rights norms and actively aimed at the promotion and protection of human rights. It gives attention to inequalities at the core of development problems and remedies discriminatory practices and unjust distributions of power that obstruct development progress causing groups of people left behind.29 Ibid., at 72. Id., at 72-73. 28 Verma, Supra note 6, at 5. 29 UN Sustainable Group, Human Rights-based Approach, 2. 26 27 Journal of the National Human Rights Commission, Vol. 22, 2023 9