Sustainable Development Is The Right Development

The Declaration stated that everybody is ‘entitled to participate in, contribute to, and luxuriate in economic, social, cultural and political development, during which all human rights and fundamental freedoms are often fully realized.’ The Declaration also confirms that ‘States have the duty to cooperate in ensuring development and eliminating obstacles to development.’ the proper to development isn't about charity, but enablement and empowerment. The Declaration identifies obstacles to development, empowers individuals and peoples, involves an enabling environment and good governance at both national and international levels, and enhances accountability of duty bearers – governments, donors and recipients, international organizations, transnational corporations, and civil society. The year 2016 marks the Declaration’s 30th anniversary. Yet today many children, women, and men – the very subjects of development – still sleep in dire need of the fulfillment of their entitlement to a lifetime of dignity, freedom, and civil right. Widening poverty gaps, food shortages, global climate change, global financial crises, corruption, and therefore the misappropriation of public funds, armed conflicts, rising unemployment, and other pressing challenges represent a collective failure to understand the proper development. which failure successively, directly affects the realization of a good range of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. In 2016, following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (which explicitly recognize the proper to development) and therefore the new Paris Agreement on global climate change, a replacement opportunity exists to consign three decades of division over the proper to development to history, and replace it with a standard understanding among States on what the proper to development is, what it means, why it's important, and the way it should be realized. Indeed, the event of such a consensual understanding is significant to realize the SDGs, including SDG16 (which, just like the right to development, emphasizes procedural and participatory rights, access to information, equality, and non-discrimination).

By- Raghav Saxena

Birla School, Pilani