Document Details
Title: On High Moral Ground: The Incorporation of Human Rights by the Development Enterprise
Author: Peter Urvin
Organisation:
Document Type: Paper
Sector: General
Geographical Focus: Global
Subject: development, human rights instruments, theory
Hyperlink to document: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/humansecurity/pdf/highground.pdf
Description: Critique of a human rights approach to development. Urvin analyses three approaches to human rights and development; 1. incorporation of human rights terminology into classical development discourse, 2. the addition of human rights objectives into a ranges of goals and criteria of development agencies, 3. the redefining of the development mandate in human rights terms.
Language: English
Pages: 9
Publication Details: The Fletcher Journal of Development Studies, vol XVII 2002,
Distributor: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
ISBN Number: -
