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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 280</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">HUMAN RIGHTS-PROOFING DEVELOPMENT PLANS</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">.<span style="color:blue"></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in;text-autospace:none"><span>-Good economic times are
especially conducive to the illusion that bad times will never return.<span>  </span></span>(A. Dixit)</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">-</span>There
is a long, long tradition of development professionals offering development
recipes that do not work. Not being facetious, in ongoing development work, the
main cause of the problems encountered is the solutions so far applied;<span style="color:#3366ff"> </span>wouldn’t you agree?<span style="color:#3366ff"> </span>Remember:
Neither charity nor a romantic sense of ‘social responsibility’ are
sustainable.</p>

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<span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">We have a tremendous underutilized accumulated
knowledge on the past and ongoing ‘development processes’ that, for the most
part, have been human rights-blind. Allow me just  four examples......<br><br></span>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">But to HR-proof development
plans, we also know what we need-to and are-not doing. Allow me just six
examples here.....</span></p>

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