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Human Rights and Development

by Peris S. Jones, Routledge, Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development, 2024, xvii + 325, pp. £29.99 (Paperback), ISBN 9781138290181

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1 Philip Alston, 2005. ‘Ships Passing in the Night: The Current State of the Human Rights and Development Debate Seen through the Lens of the Millennium Development Goals’ (2005) 27 (3) Human Rights Quarterly 755–829.

2 UNDP, Indicators for Human Rights Based Approaches to Development in UNDP Programming (United Nations Development Programme, Oslo Governance Centre 2006).

3 CESR, From disparity to dignity: tackling economic inequality through the Sustainable Development Goals (Center for Economic and Social Rights, New York 2016) < www.cesr.org/sites/default/files/disparity_to_dignity_SDG10.pdf. > accessed on 17 November 2023 (Jones cites ‘UN CESR 2016’, while the reference list has it correctly as an international NGO, not an UN organization).

4 Philip Alston, ‘Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights on His Mission to the United States of America’. (A/HRC/38/33/Add.1, United Nations 2018); Philip Alston, ‘The Parlous State of Poverty Eradication: Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ (A/HRC/44/40, United Nations 2020).

5 George Forji Amin, International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa: Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment 1450–1918 (Routledge 2024) 1.

6 Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen, ‘Introduction to Handbook on International Development and the Environment: from limits to growth to a transformation for the Anthropocene’ (1–24) in Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen (eds), Handbook on International Development and the Environment (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023) 7.

7 Juan Telleria, ‘Essentialist approaches to global issues: The ontological limitations of Development Studies’ (15–33) in Henning Melber, Uma Kothari, Laura Camfield and Kees Biekart (eds), Challenging global development: towards decoloniality and justice. EADI Global Development Series (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) 29.

8 Steven L. B. Jensen, The making of international human rights. The 1960s, decolonization and the reconstruction of global values (Cambridge University Press 2016). See also: Steven L. B. Jensen, ‘Decolonization—not western liberals—established human rights on the global agenda’ (OpenGlobalRights, Analysing the Present and Future of Human Rights, 2016) <www.openglobalrights.org/decolonization-not-western-liberals-established-human-rights-on-g/> accessed 18 December 2023.

9 Amin, n 5.

10 Radhika Balakrishnan, James Heintz and Diane Elson, Rethinking economic policy for social justice: The radical potential of human rights (Routledge 2016).

11 Sumudu Atapattu and Andrea Schapper, Human rights and the environment: Key issues (Routledge 2019).

12 Among nine, ‘main’ human rights treaties, the Refugee Convention is not included but the less ratified convention on migrant workers is (Table 4.1 on page 134).

13 Such as shifting between ‘Covid-19’ and ‘COVID-19’ (page 246), ‘SDG 1’ and ‘SDG1’ (page 222), and ‘Theory of Change’ alternating with ‘theory of change’, ‘post-colonial’ with ‘postcolonial’. On the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Hernando de Soto has become ‘Hernado de Santos’ (page 219, and index). Also, de Soto’s work is important enough to warrant inclusion in the list of references.

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