DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS EPZI

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 and human rights shows, un agencies have begun to take on a remarkable set of development priorities that, while carefully circumscribed and defined, constitute greater involvement in a state's internal affairs than anyone would have considered in the past