Useful Links for Right to Development Project

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights is the first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights. The Center combines the academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and policy development.       

     The Web site of Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights includes news, speeches, press releases, background on issues, and documents relating to human rights throughout the UN system. There is also a searchable database of treaty-based and charter-based bodies. The right to development in found in the issue area called "Human Rights in Development."     

Department for International Development The United Kingdom's foreign-aid program has explored a human rights approach to development in several policy and strategy papers.

      Franciscans International is an NGO with General Consultative status at the UN. As part of its work on peace and the eradication of poverty, the organization follows closely the right to development in the UN and has organized symposia and issued several publications on the right to development.
     

Minority Rights Group International (MRG) defends the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples, including their role in development, on which it has issued a publication. MRG has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
     

New Partnership for Africa's Development is a synthesis of several initiatives to address debt and development in Africa, the New Partnership for Africa's Development represents an effort by the continent's political leaders to work together to eradicate poverty and encourage sustainable growth and development. NEPAD is premised on its expectation to pursue development objectives under peer review and benefit from increased development assistance from donor countries.

 
      Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 national Oxfam organizations that combines development projects with advocacy efforts, including health education, debt relief and fair trade. It is one of the few major international development NGOs to apply a human rights based approach.

      United Nations Development Programme, the development arm of the UN, provides support to governments for a wide range of development work, including integrating human rights into development and publishing the Human Development Report (HDR). The full text of the HDR and detailed interagency country assessments known as UN Development Assistance Frameworks are available
     

The World Bank makes loans to developing countries for infrastructure projects, as well social-sector projects such as health and education. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) for Highly-Indebted Poor Countries, as well as overviews of the PRSP process, can be found on the Web site.