Obstacles to the realisation of the right to development

03/02/2003

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Working Group on the Right to Development
3 February – 14 February 2003

[Excerpt from the statement]

Today, this observation is unfortunately not only valid, but the situation has worsened with the ongoing neoliberal globalisation, as the latter leaves very little, if any, room for maneuver for peoples to decide on their development policies. To deny this obvious fact is to deny hundreds of millions of human beings on this planet their most basic rights.

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