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[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 326



*HUMAN RIGHTS ARE BOTH PART-OF AND INSTRUMENTAL-TO THE OVERALL PROCESS OF
DEVELOPMENT. THE REALIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS AN END-GOAL OF DEVELOPMENT
ITSELF.*



Development solutions of yesterday have literally become our problems of
today*. *

The human rights-based framework does not simply require that goals and
outcomes of development be loosely aligned with those of human rights; much
more is necessary.


Using the HR-based framework in development work brings up the hitherto
hidden and perhaps disconcerting or ignored dimensions of power and
oppression. It does away with the harmful divide between what is private
and what public, what is personal and what is political. In so doing, it
makes the primary goal of development to enhance the enjoyment of HR, of
wellbeing and above all of dignity.



A non-HR centered application of development tools and approaches for sure
eclipses the vital issues of context and power relationships; it risks
leading to 15 more years of a mechanistic application of top-down, packaged
technical solutions delivered in kits. This, at the expense of actually
considering and acting on the power relations imbalance between claim
holders and duty bearers.


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Claudio
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