PHA-Exchange> Last CETIM Publication on Human Rights - THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT

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  *To interested organizations and people
Geneva, June 27, 2007

The CETIM (Europe-Third World Centre) has just published the sixth 
number of its series of didactic brochures and critical analysis about 
certain human rights: the rights to development.
This brochure is available for free in English**, French and Spanish and 
can be ordered at the CETIM for organisations and social movements.
It can be downloaded/printed on our website : 
http://www.cetim.ch/en/publications_details.php?pid=147
Please find above a short presentation of this publication.
In solidarity
The CETIM*


	*THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT
/Part of a series of the Human Rights Programme of the CETIM./*

The last decade has been marked by an unprecedented increase in 
inequal­ities and a spectacular growth of the gap between "developed" 
countries and those of the Third World as well as the growth of a gap 
within countries them­selves. This is attested to by reports from the 
United Nations, by international conferences and even by the 
international financial institutions.
This catastrophic increase in poverty and inequality makes it imperative 
to promote and implement the Declaration on the Right to Development.

Adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1986, this declaration appears 
as a sort of final offspring among the efforts undertaken by the 
non-aligned movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when it still had the power 
and conviction to pursue cogent militancy in favor of a new 
international economic world or­der more just and more equitable.

Although the Declaration has never really been implemented, it retains 
all its legal, political and moral pertinence.
The Declaration on the Right to Development constitutes an international 
instrument of primary importance, for it asserts the right to 
development as a human right in all its dimensions and unequivocally 
clarifies the principles that should regulate international relations, 
all in a spirit of equality and mutual re­spect tending toward its full 
realization. It emphasizes collective rights, the right of peoples to 
choose their own development model, and insists on inter­national 
cooperation among countries, a cooperation which is not reduced to 
simple international aid, even though such aid may be deemed "essential" 
(Art. 4, §2). In this regard, it constitutes, overall and along with the 
corpus of human rights instruments, a further instrument for peoples in 
the struggle against neo-liberalism.

The purpose of this brochure is to present the Declaration on the Right 
to Development -- still largely unknown among most civil society 
organizations -- and relate the evolution of the discussions and what is 
at stake in its regard within the U.N. human rights instances, all while 
examining the perspectives it opens.

* */Editions du CETIM, 40 pages, 2007./


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