Book
Development and Human Rights: Rhetoric and Reality in India
29 Jun 2017
Abstract
Development and Human Rights in India examines how UN agencies are following a “rights-based approach to development” in India. It asks two questions: How (if at all) does the implementation of a rights-based approach differ from traditional development work? And what strategies do development agencies follow to overcome local opposition to this politically controversial strategy? Integrating human rights into the development process means that development agencies can be vitally important instruments in rights protection and promotion, allies overlooked in almost all existing literature on human rights. This book, then, presents the first full-length study of how these agencies evaluate the rights situation in a single country and is the first study to look at both the good and the bad in a rights-based approach (rather than selecting only the best cases). It begins with a description of what a rights-based approach is, and an examination of the human rights challenges faced in India. It then focuses on the work of five agencies: UNICEF, the UN Development Programme, the World Bank, the UN Fund for Population Activities, and UN Women. Chapters then summarize how the United Nations navigates this difficult political terrain, and how effectively these policies are being implemented. It also considers how rights-based approaches fit in the traditional discourse on human rights, and what it says about the ability of these agencies to affect meaningful change on state behavior in the rights arena.
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- Title
- Development and Human Rights
- Creators
- Joel E. Oestreich - Drexel University
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Politics
- Other Identifier
- 9780190637354; 0190637358; 9780190637347; 019063734X; 9780190086855; 0190086858; 9780190637378; 0190637374; 9780190637361; 0190637366; 991021863145704721