Human rights and development towards mutual reinforcement

"Prepared in collaboration with the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law."

"Conference held at the New York University Law School in 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The challenges of ensuring the mutuality of human rights and development endeavours / Philip Alston and Mary Robinson -- Some reflections on human rights and development / James D. Wolfensohn -- What rights can add to good development practice / Mary Robinson -- Democracy and the right to food / Jean Drèze -- Social rights and economics : claims to health care and education in developing countries / Varun Gauri -- The properties of gender equality / Kerry Rittich -- The development impact of gender equality in land rights / Karen O. Mason and Helene M. Carlsson -- Women's property rights violations in Kenya / Janet Walsh -- Child labor, education, and children's rights / Gordon Betcherman ... [et al.] -- Child labour, education, and the principle of non-discrimination / Elizabeth D. Gibbons, Friedrich Huebler, and Edilberto Loaiza -- Human rights and public goods : education as a fundamental right in India / Philip Alston and Nehal Bhuta -- The impact of human rights principles on justice reform in the Inter-American Development Bank / Christina Biebesheimer -- Less law and reform, more politics and enforcement : a civil society approach to integrating rights and development / Stephen Golub -- Putting human rights principles into development practice through finance : the experience of the International Finance Corporation / Peter Woicke -- Human rights and governance : the empirical challenge / Daniel Kaufmann -- Transnational corporations as instruments of human development / Olivier de Schutter -- Poverty reduction strategy papers within the human rights perspective / Frances Stewart and Michael Wang -- Human rights and poverty reduction strategies : moving towards convergence? / Gobind Nankani, John Page, and Lindsay Judge -- Human rights, poverty reduction strategies, and the role of the International Monetary Fund / Mark W. Plant -- The legal aspects of the World Bank's work on human rights : some preliminary thoughts / Roberto Dañino.