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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 270</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">HUMAN RIGHTS
ARE CENTRAL OBJECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT; IT IS UTTERLY INSUFFICIENT TO REFER TO
THEM AS ONE OF THE ‘CROSS-CUTTING’ ISSUES</span>.</b><span style="color:blue"> </span>(part
2 of 3)<span style="color:blue"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The role of claim
holders and duty bearers*</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">With an emphasis on
development results that actually ought to be seen as fulfilled human rights, d<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">uty-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).</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Donors as duty bearers?</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The Paris Declaration and HR</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For the full Reader go to</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="">
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