In 1986 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals
In 1986 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Right to Development, in which it considered that the human being is its main theme, and that all human beings bear a responsibility in this regard, individually and collectively. Development in its comprehensive concept is only achieved in a space of freedom, respect for rights, and the preservation of dignity. The human being, as we have seen, is the focus of this development that does not depend on satisfying a specific need but rather it is linked to holistic approaches that refer to different and complementary elements at the same time.
The human rights approach to development requires that standards related to human rights (universal, humanitarian, non-discrimination, inclusiveness, and indivisibility) be invoked in development policies. The provision of its basic components of education, health, justice and adequate income services; formulating development policies that are open to the citizen; And seeing it as a right and not a manna; And the citizen's involvement in proposing, accompanying and monitoring development projects.
We go back to history when the United Nations General Assembly approved the Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948 with the aim of “preserving the dignity of all members of the human family and their equal and inalienable rights as a necessary basis for achieving freedom, justice and peace in all parts of the world”. It is a set of general principles or guidelines, with a moral and moral value, and enjoys political and moral weight, because it was issued by the United Nations General Assembly, but it does not have the mandatory capacity, so the aforementioned declaration can be considered as an international custom, applicable to all human beings regardless. Regardless of their age. This declaration has become a standard by which to measure the degree of respect for international human rights standards and adherence to their provisions.
As for sustainable development, it is a vision that aims to meet the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generations, and it has three dimensions: economic, environmental, and socio-cultural.
What is the relationship between human rights and sustainable development? Meditation on the meaning of human rights and the contents contained in their declaration, as well as the justification for the birth of the concept of sustainable development, and its goals and fields, leads us to realize the depth of the relationship between the two concepts, which leads us to say that there is no sustainable development without human rights, and no rights without development Sustainable, the relationship between them is interactive - dialectical, and this is confirmed through the following discussion:
* In order to realize human rights, it is imperative to provide a human rights framework that enables sustainable development to assimilate these rights and incorporate them into its programs, make them achievable programs on the ground, and then allow the evaluation of what has been achieved.
So that sustainable development is equitable and equitable, generates social and economic growth, and achieves sustainability for the environment; It is necessary to include human rights in its plans and programs, which serve as guidelines for those plans. Taking into consideration the set of principles from which sustainable development is based, including: integrating environmental, social and economic considerations in the effective decision-making process, achieving the condition of social participation, justice, equity and equality within and between generations, transparency, freedom and good governance.
* Sustainable development is the lever that guarantees the implementation of human rights in its complex political, economic, social and cultural dimensions. There are no rights except in the context of sustainable development with its social, economic and environmental dimensions. How can human health, living and educational rights be achieved without sustainable development that integrates these rights in its plans? How can economic human rights be secured and poverty eradicated in a political-economic environment characterized by widespread corruption and authoritarianism; The relationship is close between the lack of respect for human rights, widespread poverty and corruption. How can one envisage the possibility of implementing the rights of the child to survival and development, for example, as well as women's rights to enjoy health, protect them from discrimination, or eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, and achieve universal primary education for males and females, without promoting gender equality and empowering women?
* Freedom is a tool for sustainable development and ensuring rights and their purpose: Amartya Sen wrote: “Achieving sustainable development, and thus, development and social equality, less poverty, a rich and vibrant culture, and a healthy environment, all require efficient, transparent and accountable institutions. These institutions guarantee the building of human capacities, the creation of equal opportunities, and the preservation of dignity and rights for all. According to this vision, development is inherent in freedom. Development depends entirely on the free activity of the people. There is no real freedom without the realization of human rights.
Freedom is a primary objective, viewed as an objective necessity to deal with human needs, foremost among which are rights, and to consider it as a coherent, integrated and interactive system through maximizing the population’s ability to confront poverty in all its manifestations: “material poverty, the poverty of protection and security, and the deprivation of the resulting love On authoritarianism and exploitative relations with the natural environment, poverty of understanding and perception, poverty of participation, poverty of identity resulting from authoritarianism and the imposition of alien values on local cultures, displacement and political exile… There is no freedom with poverty, and no rights.
Freedom, on the other hand, is an effective tool for contributing to economic development: political freedoms, that is, civil rights, which are expressed in the opportunities for people to determine who has the right to rule, on which principles should govern, the ability to monitor and criticize authorities, and the enjoyment of freedom of expression. Politics, issuing newspapers without censorship, and the freedom to choose between different political parties ... etc. As well as the political entitlements associated with democratic systems of government in the broadest sense, such as the availability of opportunities for dialogue, disagreement and political criticism, and the right to vote and participate in the election of members of the legislative and executive branches.
This justifies the emergence of the concept of development based on human rights to serve as a conceptual framework based on international human rights standards, which is directed in its implementation to promote and protect those rights, by seeking this approach to analyze obligations, inequalities and vulnerable citizens, and to address discriminatory practices and unconventional distribution. equitable power, which impedes progress and curtails human rights.
Under this approach; Plans, policies and programs are rooted in a system of rights, and this would help in promoting sustainability, enabling people themselves (rights holders) - especially the most marginalized - to participate in policy-making, and to hold accountable those who bear the duty to act in this regard (duty-bearers). Based on the characteristics of the human rights-based approach; The main objective, when formulating development policies and programs, should be to fulfill human rights, and define rights holders and their entitlements and duty-bearers and their obligations, while working to strengthen the capabilities of rights-holders to express their demands, and duty-bearers to fulfill their obligations.
Article references
- United Nations. (1993). Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, Volume 1. New York.
Sun, Amartya (2004). Development is freedom. T: Shawky Jalal. Kuwait: A World of Knowledge.
- Quoted from: Edmund Sullivan. (2002). Transformational education - an educational vision for the twenty-first century. Abdullah Al-Abed Abu Jaafar. The Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science and the Arab Center for Arabization, Translation, Authoring and Publication: Damascus Declaration on the Right to Development, in which it considered that the human being is its main theme, and that all human beings bear a responsibility in this regard, individually and collectively. Development in its comprehensive concept is only achieved in a space of freedom, respect for rights, and the preservation of dignity. The human being, as we have seen, is the focus of this development that does not depend on satisfying a specific need but rather it is linked to holistic approaches that refer to different and complementary elements at the same time.
The human rights approach to development requires that standards related to human rights (universal, humanitarian, non-discrimination, inclusiveness, and indivisibility) be invoked in development policies. The provision of its basic components of education, health, justice and adequate income services; formulating development policies that are open to the citizen; And seeing it as a right and not a manna; And the citizen's involvement in proposing, accompanying and monitoring development projects.
We go back to history when the United Nations General Assembly approved the Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948 with the aim of “preserving the dignity of all members of the human family and their equal and inalienable rights as a necessary basis for achieving freedom, justice and peace in all parts of the world”. It is a set of general principles or guidelines, with a moral and moral value, and enjoys political and moral weight, because it was issued by the United Nations General Assembly, but it does not have the mandatory capacity, so the aforementioned declaration can be considered as an international custom, applicable to all human beings regardless. Regardless of their age. This declaration has become a standard by which to measure the degree of respect for international human rights standards and adherence to their provisions.
As for sustainable development, it is a vision that aims to meet the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generations, and it has three dimensions: economic, environmental, and socio-cultural.
What is the relationship between human rights and sustainable development? Meditation on the meaning of human rights and the contents contained in their declaration, as well as the justification for the birth of the concept of sustainable development, and its goals and fields, leads us to realize the depth of the relationship between the two concepts, which leads us to say that there is no sustainable development without human rights, and no rights without development Sustainable, the relationship between them is interactive - dialectical, and this is confirmed through the following discussion:
* In order to realize human rights, it is imperative to provide a human rights framework that enables sustainable development to assimilate these rights and incorporate them into its programs, make them achievable programs on the ground, and then allow the evaluation of what has been achieved.
So that sustainable development is equitable and equitable, generates social and economic growth, and achieves sustainability for the environment; It is necessary to include human rights in its plans and programs, which serve as guidelines for those plans. Taking into consideration the set of principles from which sustainable development is based, including: integrating environmental, social and economic considerations in the effective decision-making process, achieving the condition of social participation, justice, equity and equality within and between generations, transparency, freedom and good governance.
* Sustainable development is the lever that guarantees the implementation of human rights in its complex political, economic, social and cultural dimensions. There are no rights except in the context of sustainable development with its social, economic and environmental dimensions. How can human health, living and educational rights be achieved without sustainable development that integrates these rights in its plans? How can economic human rights be secured and poverty eradicated in a political-economic environment characterized by widespread corruption and authoritarianism; The relationship is close between the lack of respect for human rights, widespread poverty and corruption. How can one envisage the possibility of implementing the rights of the child to survival and development, for example, as well as women's rights to enjoy health, protect them from discrimination, or eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, and achieve universal primary education for males and females, without promoting gender equality and empowering women?
* Freedom is a tool for sustainable development and ensuring rights and their purpose: Amartya Sen wrote: “Achieving sustainable development, and thus, development and social equality, less poverty, a rich and vibrant culture, and a healthy environment, all require efficient, transparent and accountable institutions. These institutions guarantee the building of human capacities, the creation of equal opportunities, and the preservation of dignity and rights for all. According to this vision, development is inherent in freedom. Development depends entirely on the free activity of the people. There is no real freedom without the realization of human rights.
Freedom is a primary objective, viewed as an objective necessity to deal with human needs, foremost among which are rights, and to consider it as a coherent, integrated and interactive system through maximizing the population’s ability to confront poverty in all its manifestations: “material poverty, the poverty of protection and security, and the deprivation of the resulting love On authoritarianism and exploitative relations with the natural environment, poverty of understanding and perception, poverty of participation, poverty of identity resulting from authoritarianism and the imposition of alien values on local cultures, displacement and political exile… There is no freedom with poverty, and no rights.
Freedom, on the other hand, is an effective tool for contributing to economic development: political freedoms, that is, civil rights, which are expressed in the opportunities for people to determine who has the right to rule, on which principles should govern, the ability to monitor and criticize authorities, and the enjoyment of freedom of expression. Politics, issuing newspapers without censorship, and the freedom to choose between different political parties ... etc. As well as the political entitlements associated with democratic systems of government in the broadest sense, such as the availability of opportunities for dialogue, disagreement and political criticism, and the right to vote and participate in the election of members of the legislative and executive branches.
This justifies the emergence of the concept of development based on human rights to serve as a conceptual framework based on international human rights standards, which is directed in its implementation to promote and protect those rights, by seeking this approach to analyze obligations, inequalities and vulnerable citizens, and to address discriminatory practices and unconventional distribution. equitable power, which impedes progress and curtails human rights.
Under this approach; Plans, policies and programs are rooted in a system of rights, and this would help in promoting sustainability, enabling people themselves (rights holders) - especially the most marginalized - to participate in policy-making, and to hold accountable those who bear the duty to act in this regard (duty-bearers). Based on the characteristics of the human rights-based approach; The main objective, when formulating development policies and programs, should be to fulfill human rights, and define rights holders and their entitlements and duty-bearers and their obligations, while working to strengthen the capabilities of rights-holders to express their demands, and duty-bearers to fulfill their obligations.
Article references
- United Nations. (1993). Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, Volume 1. New York.
Sun, Amartya (2004). Development is freedom. T: Shawky Jalal. Kuwait: A World of Knowledge.
- Quoted from: Edmund Sullivan. (2002). Transformational education - an educational vision for the twenty-first century. Abdullah Al-Abed Abu Jaafar. The Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science and the Arab Center for Arabization, Translation, Authoring and Publication: Damascus
