Should Human Rights Law Play a Role in Development?
Many human rights advocates believe that development agencies—agencies that define their mission as providing economic and technical aid to impoverished countries should be required to respect and promote human rights law. This style of human right...
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okr-10986-322282021-05-25T10:54:42Z Should Human Rights Law Play a Role in Development? Posner, Eric A. HUMAN RIGHTS LAW DEVELOPMENT POLICY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION INTERNATIONAL TREATY FREEDOM RULE OF LAW Many human rights advocates believe that development agencies—agencies that define their mission as providing economic and technical aid to impoverished countries should be required to respect and promote human rights law. This style of human rights imperialism should be resisted. While development agencies should obviously comply with domestic law and try to promote good rather than bad outcomes, there is no benefit in holding them to human rights law. Human rights law was designed for states, not for NGOs, and how it would be applied to NGOs is far from obvious. Because of the ambiguity and vast scope of human rights law, the practical effect of these proposals would be to add another layer of bureaucracy to development projects while subjecting those projects to scrutiny by lawyers with little to guide them but their intuitive notions of right and wrong. 2019-08-13T16:31:41Z 2019-08-13T16:31:41Z 2016-03-29 Journal Article http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/893131565615532666/Should-Human-Rights-Law-Play-a-Role-in-Development World Bank Economic Review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32228 English CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research |
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Many human rights advocates believe that
development agencies—agencies that define their mission as
providing economic and technical aid to impoverished
countries should be required to respect and promote human
rights law. This style of human rights imperialism should be
resisted. While development agencies should obviously comply
with domestic law and try to promote good rather than bad
outcomes, there is no benefit in holding them to human
rights law. Human rights law was designed for states, not
for NGOs, and how it would be applied to NGOs is far from
obvious. Because of the ambiguity and vast scope of human
rights law, the practical effect of these proposals would be
to add another layer of bureaucracy to development projects
while subjecting those projects to scrutiny by lawyers with
little to guide them but their intuitive notions of right
and wrong. |
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Posner, Eric A. |
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Should Human Rights Law Play a Role in Development? |
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Should Human Rights Law Play a Role in Development? |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank |
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2019 |
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