The Millennium Development Goals

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The African human rights system as 'norm leader': Three case studies

“…Among the reasons publicly offered for the North's opposition were concerns that it was a peoples' (collective) right and not an individual right, and also that the right was a veiled conduit for reviving the NIEO and enacting 'legally binding treaties that would oblige developed countries to transfer resources to the Global South'. 98 These concerns from the Global North persisted even after the right was recognised and adopted in a UN Declaration. 99 Thus, the success of the Global South in institutionalising the right to development on the official UN human rights register has caused much consternation in the north.…”