ABSTRACT

The juxtaposition of these three keywords — international development (ID), global impoverishment, and human rights — enables some meaningful conversation, and global social action, concerning international development. This chapter examines some silences in extreme poverty/ global poverty discourses such as the relative neglect of institutional frameworks of the ID humanitarian regimes of law and policy and some concerns regarding global reparative justice. Anti a colonial/anti- imperialist movements of the twentieth century identified some causal pathways of understanding the Eurocentric idea of development as itself a form of radical evil responsible for widespread pauperisation and immiseration of the colonised subjects. The chapter aims to add a complexity by suggesting a distinction between two elements: the ‘legal’ and the ‘juridical’ as forms of production of international human rights law (IHRL). The processes of ‘juridificiation’ present many complexities and these aggravate as concerns the reproduction of the idea and values of human rights in the languages of IHRL.