DEVT 3003 - Rights and Development

This course is about the linkages between human rights and international development with a main focus on whether human rights-based approaches can facilitate the realisation of international development goals, such as overcoming global poverty, improving international and national inequalities, and achieving sustainable development goals. This course provides an introduction to human rights and how they are linked to questions of social change and economic, social, political and human development. Through case studies from the developing world, we examine key debates: What are human rights, how can these be applied in the context of international/national development, and what effects do they produce in practice? What are the main features of rights-based approaches to international development and how do these differ from other approaches? What are the limits of human rights for achieving sustainable development goals?