Human rights and development
Subtitle: towards mutual reinforcement
By: edited by Philip Alston And Mary Robinson ; Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law.
Contributors: Alston, Philip.; Robinson, Mary, 1944-; New York University. Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; OUP Oxford; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
Subjects: Human rights -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Social rights -- Developing countries -- Congresses; Economic development -- Congresses
Genres: Developing countries; Congresses.
Description: These essays address crucial aspects of the humans rights and development interface, including the economics of social rights land rights and women's empowerment; child labour and access to education; reform of legal and judicial systems; the human rights role of the private sector and building human rights into development planning.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Results from a conference held at New York University Law School in 2004, at which drafts of most of the chapters were first presented"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: The challenges of ensuring the mutuality of human rights and development endeavours / Philip Alston and Mary Robinson; title: Some reflections on human rights and development / James D. Wolfensohn; title: What rights can add to good development practice / Mary Robinson; title: Democracy and the right to food / Jean Drèze; title: Social rights and economics : claims to health care and education in developing countries / Varun Gauri; title: The properties of gender equality / Kerry Rittich; title: The development impact of gender equality in land rights / Karen O. Mason and Helene M. Carlsson; title: Women's property rights violations in Kenya / Janet Walsh; title: Child labor, education, and children's rights / Gordon Betcherman ... [et al.]; title: Child labour, education, and the principle of non-discrimination / Elizabeth D. Gibbons, Friedrich Huebler, and Edilberto Loaiza; title: Human rights and public goods : education as a fundamental right in India / Philip Alston and Nehal Bhuta; title: The impact of human rights principles on justice reform in the Inter-American Development Bank / Christina Biebesheimer; title: Less law and reform, more politics and enforcement : a civil society approach to integrating rights and development / Stephen Golub; title: Putting human rights principles into development practice through finance : the experience of the International Finance Corporation / Peter Woicke; title: Human rights and governance : the empirical challenge / Daniel Kaufmann; title: Transnational corporations as instruments of human development / Olivier de Schutter; title: Poverty reduction strategy papers within the human rights perspective / Frances Stewart and Michael Wang; title: Human rights and poverty reduction strategies : moving towards convergence? / Gobind Nankani, John Page, and Lindsay Judge; title: Human rights, poverty reduction strategies, and the role of the International Monetary Fund / Mark W. Plant; title: The legal aspects of the World Bank's work on human rights : some preliminary thoughts / Roberto Dañino.