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Human Development Report 2000 Human Development and Human Rights

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ISBN-10: 0195216784

ISBN-13: 9780195216783

Edition: 2000 (Revised)

Authors: United Nations Development Programme Staff

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Human Development Report 2000, now in its eleventh edition, provides a thought provoking analysis of two interrelated and intertwined issues: human rights and human development. The Report traces the history of the struggle for human rights as a common human experience and outlines the new frontier of the rights agenda for the 21st Century. It demonstrates the ways in which human rights enrich human development goals by adding moral force and ideas of claims, duties, and obligations. It shows how human development, in turn, brings a dynamic long-term perspective to human rights by adding more concrete analysis and quantification. Analyzing how human rights must be respected, protected, and…    
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List price: $26.75
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/29/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Overview
Human rights and human development for freedom and solidarity
Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
Glossary On Human Rights And Human Development
Human rights and human development
Common motivation and basic compatibility
What human rights add to human development
What human development adds to human rights
The nature of duties associated with human rights
The Ongoing Global Struggle For Human Rights
Struggles for human freedoms
The struggle continues
Freedom from discrimination for equality
Freedom from want for a decent standard of living
Freedom for the realization of one's human potential
Freedom from fear with no threats to personal security
Freedom from injustice
Freedom of participation, expression and association
Freedom for decent work without exploitation
Emerging issues in human rights
Annex Growing commitment to human rights
Inclusive democracy secures rights
The link between human rights and democracy
How and why some democracies harm human rights
Policy responses advancing human rights through an inclusive democracy
Rights empowering people in the fight against poverty
Rights and capabilities as ends and means of escaping poverty
Resources and economic growth a means to realizing human rights
Global justice obligations and responsibilities of state and non-state actors to design a pro-poor global order
Human rights to empower poor people in their fight against poverty
Using indicators for human rights accountability
Building accountability
Why statistics?
Creating indicators: from development to rights
Respecting, protecting and fulfilling rights
Ensuring key principles and adequate action
Ensuring secure access
Identifying actors
The way forward
Annex Assessing progress in human rights and human development
Promoting rights in human development
Priorities for national action
Priorities for international action
A summary of actions to realize a vision for the 21st century
References
Special Contributions
Human rights and intervention in the 21st century Kofi Annan
Transition to democracy and human rights Olusegun Obasanjo
Universality and priorities Mary Robinson
BOXES
The long struggle for women s rights
Democracy s advance
Empowering poor people political activism and people s mobilization
Evolution of international workers rights
Respecting human rights crucial in dealing with HIV/AIDS
The power of shame a weapon for human rights NGOs
Racism against immigrants and other minorities in Western Europe
A murder that didn't silence a message
Horizontal inequality and conflict
The importance of laughter and forgetting
Minority rights and horizontal inequality the parliamentary responses in Belgium and Switzerland
The values of Asia
Malaysia s response to race riots addressing horizontal inequality
Transition from a brutal past to an open society in South Africa and Cambodia
Strengthening the rule of law in Argentina and El Salvador
Ownership of structural adjustment the rights approach in India
The John Le Carr approach to economic policy structural adjustment by stealth
Poverty, human rights and human development
Democracy and action to avoid famine
Mobilizing civil and political rights for economic, social and cultural rights
Building capabilities to secure rights for the next generation
Inadequacies and biases in public spending for basic social services
Human rights accountability of global corporations
Marginalization of poor countries from the bounty of the world economy
Global justice reconciling conflicting values of impartiality and self-interest
Building human rights safeguards into the TRIPS agreement
The social clause no panacaea for workers'rights
International trade, human rights and environmental agreements
Handle with care
The freedom indices: were they tools for the times?
Using statistics to look behind the questions
Uses and abuses of the human development index
Dispelling the myths of difference
When lack of data is revealing data
Statistics that reveal chilling policy and create accountability
Legal norms running through rights
The power of statistics to create national debate
Demystifying budgets
Benchmarking to agree on an adequate rate of progress
No remedy for the violence done the street children of Guatemala
Monitoring Mattel no toying with statistics
Towards a human rights international accountability index
Ending gender discrimination in divorce legal gains in Egypt
Legislation against honor killings in Jordan
The rights of the child turning words into action
Alliances for achieving women s human rights
An alliance for the rights of individuals with special needs the Disabled People s International
Putting pressure on the government the national human rights action plan of Brazil
A private firm s advocacy for mandatory primary education
Fewer conflicts a network for early warning systems
African countries take the initiative in implementing the International Criminal Court s provisions
European regional initiatives for promoting human rights
A diamond in the rough global witness to sanctions busting in Angola s civil war
BOX TABLE
Indicators for a human rights international accountability index
TABLES
Income poverty in selected OECD countries
Average sentence served for rape in selected countries, 1990
Women physically assaulted by an intimate partner
Ratification of core International Labor Organization conventions (as of 4 April 2000)
Child domestic workers in selected countries,1990s
A2.1. Status of major international human rights instruments
A2.2. Status of the fundamental labour rights conventions
A3.1. Truth and reconciliation commissions a selected list
Countries by average annual growth in GNP per capita,1990
Comparing and contrasting three sets of international laws
Do municipalities have policies enabling participation in promoting culture?
Justice delayed, justice denied?
Realizing the right to health in Ecuador assessing the state's obligations
Realizing the right to primary education in India are actors meeting their obligations?
FIGURES
Ethnic discrimination services are less accessible to minorities
Disparity by income public services favour the rich
Urban-rural disparity health services and safe water are less accessible in rural areas
Life expectancy varies by ethnicity
Income poverty varies by region
Infant mortality rate varies between rich and poor
School enrolment varies by sex
Declining membership in trade unions
Discrimination by income the poorest receive less in public spending and subsidies
Slow growth in incomes
Rapid export growth, shifting shares
Discrimination by race education in South Africa
Disaggregating the average can reveal discrimination
Resources and human poverty industrialized country contrasts
Giving priority to basic health and education in Nepal
Setting benchmarks for progress in Bolivia
Intolerance of difference hate crimes in the United States
Abuse of women usually goes unreported
Building a network for NILE: comparative advantages for human rights actions
Human Development Indicators
Note on statistics in the Human Development Report
What do the human development indices reveal?
Monitoring Human Development:Enlarging People S Choices...
Human development index
Gender-related development index
Gender empowerment measure
Human poverty in developing countries
Human poverty in OECD, Eastern Europe and the CIS
Comparisons of human development indices
Trends in human development and per capita income
Trends in human development and economic growth
To Lead A Long And Healthy Life...
Progress in survival
Health profile
To Acquire Knowledge...
Education profile
Access to information flows
To Have Access To The Resources Needed For A Decent Standard Of Living...
Economic performance
Macroeconomic structure
Resource flows
Resource use
Aid flows from DAC member countries
Aid and debt by recipient country
While Preserving It For Future Generations...
Demographic trends
Energy use
Environmental profile
Managing the environment
Ensuring Human Security...
Food security and nutrition
Job security
Profile of political life
Crime
Personal distress
And Achieving Equality For All Women And Men...
Gender and education
Gender and economic activity
Gender, work burden and time allocation
Women s political participation
Basic Indicators For Other Un Member Countries
Technical note
Primary statistical references
Definitions of statistical terms
Classification of countries
Index to indicators
Countries and regions that have produced human development reports