Human Rights and Development

Philip Alston is Professor of Law at New York University Law School and Faculty Director of its Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Since 2002 he has been Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals.Professor Mary Robinson founded Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative in 2002. Previously she was President of the Republic of Ireland (1990-97), and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002).

• Preface ; Notes on Contributors ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Abbreviations ; 1. The Challenges of Ensuring the Mutuality of Human Rights and Development Endeavours ; 2. Some Reflections on Human Rights and Development ; 3. What Rights Can Add to Good Development Practice ; A. THE ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL RIGHTS ; 4. Democracy and the Right to Food ; 5. Social Rights and Economics: Claims to Health Care and Education in Developing Countries ; B. LAND RIGHTS AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ; 6. The Properties of Gender Equality ; 7. The Development Impact of Gender Equality in Land Rights ; 8. Women's Property Rights Violations in Kenya ; C. CHILD LABOUR AND ACCESS TO EDUCATION ; 9. Child Labour, Education, and Children's Rights ; 10. Child Labour, Education, and the Principle of Non-Discrimination ; 11. Human Rights and Public Goods: Education as a Fundamental Right in India ; D. REFORM OF LEGAL AND JUDICIAL SYSTEMS ; 12. The Impact of Human Rights Principles on Justice Reform in the Inter-American Development Bank ; 13. Less Law and Reform, More Politics and Enforcement: A Civil Society Approach to Integrating Rights and Development ; E. THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS ; 14. Putting Human Rights Principles into Development Practice through Finance: The Experience of the International Finance Corporation ; 15. Human Rights and Governance: The Empirical Challenge ; 16. Transnational Corporations as Instruments of Human Development ; F. BUILDING HUMAN RIGHTS INTO DEVELOPMENT PLANNING PROCESSES: THE PRSP EXERCISE ; 17. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers within the Human Rights Perspective ; 18. Human Rights and Poverty Reduction Strategies: Moving Towards Convergence? ; 19. Human Rights, Poverty Reduction Strategies, and the Role of the International Monetary Fund ; 20. The Legal Aspects of the World Bank's Work on Human Rights: Some Preliminary Thoughts