(A) Human Rights— Development Connect Development is linked with human rights with individuals at the centre of development and by affirming the avoidance of human rights breaches as an important component of development. It is a method for the realisation of welfare and expanding freedom as a human right under the right to development.36 The human rights-based approach to the right to development is one approach, while the other approach considers development as human rights in itself. Conceptualisation of development in terms of methods and engrossment is important.37 A chief element of the perspective is that the human rights-based approach needs international development cooperation and assistance by an agreed structure of international human rights law under the condition of duties of both beneficiaries and donors.38 The human right-development connect has got strength with the recognition giving momentum. The idea of development has changed to “a general conception of development as a process incorporating material and non-material needs [and] human rights…”39 The concept of human rights-development connect is expanding and converging as an integrated approach. Jack Donnelly writes that “[d]evelopment and human rights must be seen as fundamentally complementary and mutually reinforcing in time frame.” A right is a claim to do something needed for development. Further, the acceptance of the claim by others, as a part of the development process, guarantees the exercise of rights on the basis of an implicit desire to develop human rights, are the claims to the sine qua non of the process itself. The blending of the idea of human rights with development gives a valuable device. The moral system manifests both laws of development and the changing conditions of the process. From the moral foundation comes out particular confidence as to what should be done and how to do it for development plan of actions. Among these faith and identifications of needs, human rights are derived. The confidence and plans of action all the time affect each other, but initially some fundamental exigencies and propensities always continue to exist there.40 Arjun Sengupta, ‘On the Theory and Practice of the Right to Development’ in Arjun Sengupta, Archana Negi & Maushami Basu (ed.), Reflections on the Right to Development (Oaks/London, Sage Publications 2005), 67; Arjun Sengupta, ‘On the Theory and Practice of the Right to Development’ (2004) 24 Human Rights Quarterly, 848. 37 Other writers have catalogued different approaches of connecting human right to development. Stephen P. Marks, ‘The Human Rights Framework for Development: Seven Approaches’ in Sengupta, Negi & Basu, Ibid., at 23. 38 UN Development Programme, Human Rights Report 2001: Making New Techniques Work for Human Development, 9-15. 39 Theodor Meron, The Humanization of International Law. (Leiden, Martiaus Nijhoof 2006), 476. Hague Academy of International Law Monograph, Vol. 3. 40 John O’Manique, ‘Human Right and Development’ (1992) 14 Human Rights Quarterly 78, 83 and 102-103. 36 12 Journal of the National Human Rights Commission, Vol. 22, 2023