The Centre for Development and Human Rights (CDHR) is, a research organization based at New Delhi, registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI, 1860 (Registration No. S.38721 of 2002).
The Centre is dedicated to bringing theoretical clarity to the concept of Right to Development by integrating the academic disciplines of law, economics, international co-operation and philosophy.

Concept of Right to Development
The UN General Assembly proclaimed development as a human right in its 1986
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Reflections on the Right to Development
The Right to Development is a new and highly contested right.
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Centre for Development and Environment (SUM – Norway): SUM is an international research institution at the University of Oslo.  It promotes scholarly work on the challenges and dilemmas posed by sustainable development. SUM has an extensive network of national and international research partners, and works in close cooperation with researchers in the South.
Centre for Economic and Social Rights (CESR): CESR works to promote social justice through human rights.  Capitalizing on the convergences and bridging the disciplinary divides between the development and human rights agendas, CESR seeks to render development processes more accountable for economic and social rights violations. 
Rights & Development Bulletin - Volume 6, Issue 1 (January - March, 2012)
Rights & Development Bulletin - Volume 5, Issue 4 (September - December, 2011)
Rights & Development Bulletin - Volume 5, Issue 3 (June-September, 2011) is now available
Rights & Development Bulletin - Volume 5, Issue 1&2 (January-June, 2011)

    
Arjun Sengupta (June 10, 1937-September 26, 2010), Founding Chairman of CDHR
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