Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement

by Philip Alston, Mary Robinson

Overview

Only in the past 15 years or so, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the realization that freedom and economic well-being are empirically linked, have the professional communities dealing with development and human rights issues begun to communicate effectively. But too much of the dialogue has been confined to an abstract or theoretical level. The eminent contributors to this volume address highly specific but crucial aspects of the human rights and development interface, including the economics of social rights; land rights and women's empowerment; child labor and access to education; reform of legal and judicial systems; the human rights role of the private sector; and building human rights into development planning, especially the Poverty Reduction Strategy process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199284627
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/08/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Philip Alston is Professor of Law at New York University Law School and Faculty Director of its Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Since 2002 he has been Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals. Professor Mary Robinson founded Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative in 2002. Previously she was President of the Republic of Ireland (1990-97), and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002).

Table of Contents

PrefaceNotes on Contributors1. Introduction: The Challenges of Ensuring the Mutuality of Human Rights and Development Endeavours, Philip Alston and Mary Robinson2. Some Reflections on Human Rights and Development, James D. Wolfensohn3. What Rights Can Add to Good Development Practice, Mary RobinsonA. The Economics of Social Rights4. Democracy and the Right to Food, Jean Drèze5. . Social Rights and Economics: Claims to Health Care and Education in Developing Countries, Varun GauriB. Land Rights and Women's Empowerment6. The Properties of Gender Equality, Kerry Rittich7. The Development Impact of Gender Equality in Land Rights, Karen O. Mason and Helene M. Carlsson8. Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya, Janet WalshC. Child Labor and Access to Education9. Child Labor, Education, and Children's Rights, Gordon Betcherman, Jean Fares, Amy Luinstra, and Robert Prouty10. Child Labor, Education, and the Principle of Non-Discrimination, Elizabeth Gibbons, Friedrich Huebler and Edilberto Loaiza11. Human Rights and Public Goods: Education as a Fundamental Right in India, Philip Alston and Nehal BhutaD. Reform of Legal and Judicial Systems12. The Impact of Human Rights Principles on Justice Reform in the Inter-American Development Bank, Christina Biebesheimer13. Less Law and Reform, More Politics and Enforcement: A Civil Society Approach to Integrating Rights and Development, Stephen GolubE. The Role of the Private Sector in Promoting Human Rights14. Putting Human Rights Principles into Development Practice through Finance: The Experience of the International Finance Corporation, Peter Woicke15. Human Rights and Governance: The Empirical Challenge, Daniel Kaufmann16. Transnational Corporations as Instruments of Human Development, Olivier de SchutterF. Building Human Rights into Development Planning Processes: The PRSP Exercise17. PRSP's within the Human Rights Perspective, Frances Stewart and Michael Wang18. Human Rights and the PRSP Approach, Gobind Nankani, John Page, and Lindsay Judge19. Human Rights, the PRSP, and the Role of the International Monetary Fund, Mark Plant