ABSTRACT
Many states require assistance through cooperation to ensure a rights-based development. Cooperation in line with the right to development would help reduce obstacles to human rights. International cooperation at the meso-level is the most important and least addressed aspect of development. The legal obligations for international cooperation that underpin and complement those contained in the Declaration on the Right to Development. Cooperation on human rights and development is prominently emphasized in the Charter of the United Nations. The failure of state cooperation for human rights in development is vexing because are agreed principles relevant to this task. In its General Comment on the Right to Food, the Committee describes in detail the importance of international cooperation. The Declaration on the Right to Development comprehensively addresses international cooperation. The international community has renewed its consensus for cooperation by adopting the United Nations Millennium Declaration. States remain the best-positioned actor in the international community to protect, promote and fulfill human rights law.
