CONCLUSION
The appearance of the human right to development as a conceptualisation of vital
significance is a contemplation of its strong traits. The sustained growth of the idea and
its application into a pragmatic direction and inspiration founded upon international
human rights norms in relation to development enterprises is to be the subject to the
subsequent plan of action.61
The right to development involves a system with fairness and righteousness. Any
human rights-based approach to economic and social strategies must be built on
the premise of righteousness because justice comes from the idea of human dignity
and from a social contract, in which all members of a civil society are expected to
be involved. It is intelligible from the UDHR that equity is a basic concern as its
Article 1 propounds that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and
rights.” Similarly, the UN Declaration on the Right to Development is based on the
idea that this right involves a demand for and equity-based social order. A number
of its provisions necessitate equality of opportunity, equality of access to resources,
equality in allocation of advantage and uprightness of distribution, and equality in the
right to development.62
An important principle of the human rights-based approach to the right to development
calls for insistence on participatory responsibility of individuals. To be specific,
people have a productive role in development programmes. An active and informed
participation of stakeholders is to be in accordance with the human rights-based
approach because the international human rights system asserts rights of individuals
in the management of public affairs. The other principle of this approach responds
to the progressive fulfilment of rights. The discourse on human rights acknowledges
obstacles in the realisation of many rights immediately are because of the lack of
resources, which may have to be satisfied in a progressive manner. The states admit
that speedy progress towards the achievement of many human rights is thinkable
within the existing resource limitations, while the realisation of some rights may be
delayed because of the lack of resources.63
While the high level task force on the realisation of the right to development has
concentrated that partnership between the developed and developing countries have
given strength to the right to development in practice, the UN General Assembly
Resolution 64/172 has recommended that “an international legal standard of a binding
nature” on this right should be prepared.64 The changing awareness about the process
Emergence of the Right to Development, Supra note 16, at 16.
Sengupta, Supra note 23, at 69.
63
Siddiq R. Osmani, ‘The Human Rights-Based Approach to Development in the Era of Globalization’
in UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, Supra note 16, at 122-123.
64
Marks & Rudolf, Supra note 31, at 465.
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