Report on the Right to Development

offered to me: Human Rights Council session 39

about: Item 3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development (Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to development).

In light of the confused international conditions and the escalation of armed conflicts, the right to development faces multiple obstacles for its realization and respect.

In this context, Maat Foundation would like to reaffirm that the right to development is an inalienable human right.

References were made to the concept of the right to development in the two International Covenants: Article 1 of each stipulated (the right of peoples to self-determination and to be free to achieve their economic, social and cultural development). The right of all peoples to pursue their own goals for the free disposal of their wealth and natural resources was also stipulated, without prejudice to any obligations stemming from the requirements of international economic cooperation based on the principle of mutual benefit in accordance with international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence. And that there is nothing in any of the provisions of this covenant that may be interpreted in a manner indicating its breach of the inherent right of all peoples to the full enjoyment and use of the fullness of freedom with their wealth and natural resources.