About the Book: Development and Human Rights : Rhetoric and Reality in India
In 2003, the United Nations adopted a common rights-based approach to
development in their efforts to promote an international standard of human
rights throughout the world. The approach emphasizes economic, social, and
cultural rights, but plays down the role of civil and political rights in
development. Intergovernmental and non-governmental agencies operate only at the
invitation and sufferance of their hosts, and states retain full sovereignty and
control over their territory; and the direct promotion of civil and political
rights by foreign organizations has seemed beyond the ability of multilateral
development agencies. But as Development