ABSTRACT
The right to development outlines a rights-based process which can help to reduce the problems of globalization. The right to development articulates the entitlement of the developing world. The international community has confirmed it as an inalienable and universal human right. The slow development of the right to development is due to its highly politicized nature. The Vienna Declaration displayed the commitment of the international community to cooperation to realize the rights. The World Summit Outcome also acknowledged the importance of human rights to international cooperation. Donnelly suggests that there is a tendency to treat the right to development as a synthesis of more traditional human rights. The rights-based approach’s emphasis on empowerment, equality and accountability can help to control the phenomena of elite capture in the development process. The only binding mechanism that includes the right to development is the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights. The right itself has become entrenched in human rights discourse.
