ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relationship between development and human rights, especially in the Global South. Market-oriented strategies, however, also tended to subordinate human rights to development, at least in the short and medium term. State interventions to better realize economic, social, and cultural rights regularly rejected as slowing the pace of economic growth. International law and practice, however, included little more than vague references to the importance of “international cooperation” for the achievement of both human rights and development. The right to self-determination, which had been part of international human rights discussions since the early 1950s, became the core of an emerging vision of development and human rights. A human rights-based approach to achieving these goals adds that the manner in which they are achieved must also respect and promote key civil and political rights. The political projects of universal respect for internationally recognized human rights and of sustainable human development overlap only partly and have significantly different internal logics.
