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[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 270



*HUMAN RIGHTS ARE CENTRAL OBJECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT; IT IS UTTERLY
INSUFFICIENT TO REFER TO THEM AS ONE OF THE ‘CROSS-CUTTING’ ISSUES.* (part 2
of 3)



*The role of claim holders and duty bearers**

With an emphasis on development results that actually ought to be seen as
fulfilled human rights, duty-bearers become accountable in a variety of
ways: through budgetary allocations, through building capacity on work to
realize specific rights, as well as through securing rule-of-law in general
and, more specifically, securing judicial-enforcement mechanisms for human
rights (HR).


*Donors as duty bearers?*

It is interesting to note that donors consistently choose the term and
pursue ‘equal opportunities’ rather than ‘equal results’. It can be argued
that the second term is more human rights-reflective than the first since,
in HR work, it is results that ultimately count.



*The Paris Declaration and HR*

It should be made very clear that the Paris Declaration is not a human
rights document. One could maybe even say that the Paris Declaration is an
anti-human rights document in that it systematically missed any reference to
HR at a point in time when most development-oriented documents did make such
a reference. (In all honesty, the Paris Declaration implicitly does ‘refer’
to human rights in just a few places). It is by now thus openly admitted
that the Paris Declaration does not provide any ready-made and
fully-consensual framework for the integration of the HR framework in
foreign aid.


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Claudio
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