A review of the scope, legality and enforceability This article aims to provide the reader with a critical analysis of the scope, legality and enforceability of The Right to Development the (RTD), more precisely of “the right to a process of development in which all rights and fundamental...

Poverty is a problem of international human rights law. Poverty degrades human dignity which is the main precept of human rights. Human rights exist to protect the human from any deprivation with a legal context. Therefore, poverty under international human rights law, can be seen as violation...

This paper examines the Right to Development (RtD) in the context of the ongoing negotiations to finalize Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are signing with the European Union (EU). These EPAs are being negotiated within the Cotonou...

This paper outlines areas of human rights law relevant to development and introduces perspectives on the nature of the relationship between the two fields. While it is clear that some progress has been made towards integrating human rights and development, it is clear that the two discourses...