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Title: | Human Rights and Development in Africa |
Authors: | Mohan, Giles Holland, Jeremy |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 88 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 177-196 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | economic development human rights Law, Human Rights and Violence Development and Technology |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240108704524 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=43C296C928A3BB91F0D1 |
Abstract: | Throughout the 1990s the debates about human rights and development have increasingly converged. This paper asks whether the emerging human rights-based approach to development, honed in the period of revisionist neoliberalism, can deliver meaningful improvements to the African crisis. It first outlines the evolution of the rights-based development agenda from its Enlightenment roots to the present day in order to understand how the present agenda is defined. This has seen the emphasis expand from a personal and civil focus to an international and 'developmental' one. Next, the paper examines the theoretical underpinnings of the current rights-based development agenda and summarizes two recent reports, by the Department for International Development, London, and the UNDP, which place such concerns at their centre. From there, an overview is presented of the state of play of implementing rights-based procedures in Africa. The next section assesses the moral and practical implications of the rights agenda for Africa and the opportunities and threats it presents. The paper concludes by suggesting the possible future for rights work in Africa and the research agenda attached to it. Bibliogr., sum. |