The Human Rights-oriented Approach to Development, Providing the Connection Between the Right to Development and the Sustainable Development

Subject Areas : Sustainable Development

seyed ghasem  zamani ¹ (Professor. Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabatabaii University, Tehran, Iran. *(Corresponding Author))
keivan  eghbali ² (Judiciary Research Institute, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2020-06-21 Accepted : 2023-05-18 Published : 2024-03-20

Keywords: Development, the right to development, the Sustainable development, Human rights based approach to development, Observance of environmental considerations.,

Abstract :

The right to development and the sustainable development are appropriate responds to adverse consequences of classic approach to development and in each of them, there is a try to look at development from a specific perspective with a goal of finding a appropriat respond to its adverse consequences. It seems that the adoption of a human rights oriented approach in advancing of development process, is a context in which the consideration of both concepts can be well realized. In the framework of this approach and as result of adverse effects of failure to comply with environmental considerations of the sustainable development on realization of the human rights in development policies, Paying attention to these considerations will be among the priorities of any development program. The important point here is that guarantee of human rights is also considered as an main goal in the framework of the right to development, and therefore any success in guaranteeing human rights in development process through environmental considerations, can also contribute to the realization of this right. Also, the pursuit of human rights-oriented development in the context of the realization of the right to development, is an effective step in forcing states to comply with environmental considerations and, consequently, to ensure the path to sustainable development. the inclusion of human rights considered in the right to development, in the binding international treaties such as the Covenant on Political and Civil Rights and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, is a context in which any commitment of states to comply with environmental considerations of sustainable development can be considered as an binding obligation, due to the positive impact of these considerations on realization of above-mentioned human rights cases.

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