The Right to Development from a Human Rights Approach: Conceptual Bases, Legal Framework, and Contemporary Challenges

Sustainable Development and Economic Empowerment of Women

“…The right to development presupposes a passive subjection of States, the international community, and also the private sector (including as an agent promoting jobs) to favor better human development, through solidarity and economic cooperation [4]. Fortunately, note that development must be conceived as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people can enjoy [...] it is emphasized that the right to development is a universal and inalienable right, an integral part of fundamental human rights [... which] recognizes the interdependent relationship between democracy, development and human rights [5].…”

“…Thus, in order to make sustainable development effective in practice, it is necessary to recognize and affirm women's freedoms for the full exercise of decent work. 5 In this way, the political safeguard of these capacities highlights the potential they have in expanding their freedoms so that, when they reach a desirable standard of living, based on equal working conditions and opportunities, they deconstruct unfair structural models, promoting socioeconomically more favorable environments and, consequently, inducing the effectiveness of the right to development.…”

“…On the other hand, high levels of commonality attributes are expected from women, which include being friendly, altruistic, concerned with others and expressive in emotional terms" (Costa; Santos, [2], p. 32). 5 Particularly by the content of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), it is clear that the list of human rights at work includes, in addition to the principles and guarantees relating to individual working conditions, the right to safe and healthy working conditions, the right to social security, the right to fair remuneration and the right to a reasonable limit on the number of hours worked ([13], p. 7). 6 "There are women with an excellent predisposition to program.…”

Social Rights and International Development

“…Furthermore, the main criterion for the investigation mandate of the Special Procedures is not merely the treaties that the respective country has actually ratified, but the considerably broader human rights norms set down by the UDHR. 92-93; for an overview of the current state of the debate on the right to development see Piovesan 2013;von Bernstorff 2014, pp. 47 The work of both bodies is based on the Declaration on the Right to Development of 1986, 48 Article 6 (2) of which emphasizes the indivisibility and the mutual dependence of individual human rights and highlights, in several other parts, the importance of conventional human rights protection, including social rights (inter alia in its preamble, in Article 1 [1], Article 2[2], Article 3 [3], Article 5 und Article 9[2]).…”