Year
2010
Volume
4
Number
2
Page
265
Language
English
Court
Reference
G. DE BECO, “The Interplay between Human Rights and Development the Other Way Round: The Emerging Use of Quantitative Tools for Measuring the Progressive Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, HRILD 2010, nr. 2, 265-287
Recapitulation
This article concerns the interplay between human rights and development. This interplay has usually only been considered in one direction (human rights ? development). The article considers the possibility of studying the interplay the other way round (development ? human rights). It examines both the theoretical and practical aspects involved. On the one hand, it explains why a greater convergence between human rights and development approaches is necessary. On the other, it analyses the emerging use of quantitative tools for measuring the progressive realisation of economic, social and cultural rights. Using the right to education as an example, it shows how these tools can help human rights practitioners to define human rights obligations and the obligation progressively to realise economic, social and cultural rights, according to a State’s maximum available resources in particular. Finally, it examines how human rights practitioners could adopt an interdisciplinary approach to human rights.