The Effectiveness of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to determine the necessary changes that should be done within the international legal instruments that regulate and protect the right to development, in order to create a pragmatic legal order to achieve concrete results. To analyse this matter it will be necessary to deepen into the historical notion of development, the evolution of the legal framework and the current concept and regulatory instruments that derived in the creation of a human right to development. Thus, the main objective will be analysing the content of the 1986 United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development (the Declaration) with the aim of discovering its fundamental flaws and defining a way of eliminating them in order to create a legal framework with a practical orientation towards meeting its primary objectives.