ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the right to development was accorded the status of a human right. It analyzes the original right to development was not a human right–it was claimed as a right of sovereign states in the Global South against the Global North for access to resources and technology for their national economic development. The chapter examines the subsequent nodes of the genealogy, wherein the right to development became a human right–the Right to Development. It discusses the story of how the right to development became the Right to Development, and how the fundamental equality and indivisibility of human rights faced a significant challenge. Manouchehr Ganji particularly emphasized the need for the Commission to focus its attention broadly on poverty reduction, especially in the area of hunger, as the "most pressing objective of development in the context of human rights."
