ABSTRACT
The adoption by the United Nations in 1986 of the Declaration on the Right to Development was the culmination of a long process of international campaigning for human rights. From the beginning, the idea of human rights as an international concern was perceived as an integrated whole consisting of all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. In 1969, the Declaration on Social Progress and Development further emphasized the interdependence of civil and political rights, and by the early 1970s, the concept of the right to development emerged as a human right. The content of the right to development can be analyzed on the basis of the text of the Declaration on the Right to Development. The developing countries must accept the primary responsibility of implementing programs for realizing the right to development covered by the compact, with all the necessary policies and public actions.
