Development and Rights

Contents: Preface/Deborah Eade. 1. The depoliticisation of poverty/Firoze Manji. 2. The humanitarian responsibilities of the UN security council: ensuring the security of the people/Juan Somavia. 3. African rural labour and the world bank: an alternative perspective/Deborah Fahy Bryceson and John Howe. 4. Empowerment and survival: humanitarian work in civil conflict/Martha Thompson. 5. The global struggle for the right to a place to live/Miloon Kothari. 6. Agrarian reform: a continuing imperative or an anachronism?/Cristina Liamzon. 7. The ethics of immigration controls: issues for development NGOs/Andy Storey. 8. The right to protection from sexual assault: the Indian anti-rape campaign/Geetanjali Gangoli. 9. Guatemala: uncovering the past, recovering the future/Elizabeth Lira. 10. Strengthening unions: the cause of irrigated agriculture in the Brazilian north-east/Didier Bloch. 11. All rights guaranteed -- all actors accountable: poverty is a violation of human rights/Grahame Russel. 12. Collective memory and the process of reconciliation and reconstruction/Wiseman Chirwa. 13. Devastation by leather tanneries in Tamil Nadu/John Paul Baskar. 14. Annotated bibliography. 15. Addresses of publishers and other organisations.

"The fiftieth anniversary of the 1948 Universal declaration of human rights prompts a re-examination of the links between 'development' and the range of economic, social, political, and cultural rights that are enshrined within it. Chronic poverty is a flagrant denial of what the international community once hailed as the basic rights and fundamental freedoms on which our humanity and security must rest. The papers in this collection consider, among other entitlements, the rights to food, adequate housing, safe employment, protection from sexual assault, and popular involvement in the political processes that shape the lives of poor communities." (jacket)