ABSTRACT
Globalization presents challenges and opportunities for human rights-based development. The political reasons for the right’s slow legal development seem hollow in light of the international community’s repeated commitments to development and human rights. The right to development can provide legitimacy and stability in governing globalization. The legitimacy of governance can be determined by its fulfillment of human rights. The right to development addresses state responsibility during economic globalization and may help to ease conflict over state regulations. The discourse of the right to development is essential as it provokes outrage, potentially mobilizing people to deal with the problems posed by economic globalization. The 1997 Report of the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on the Right to Development recommended a number of methods for international economic institutions to become more compatible with the right to development. The right to development includes the local, making human rights law more relevant to regional and national human rights struggles.
