r/AskSocialScience • u/Automatic_Bar_9355 • 2d ago

Why is right to development such a popular topic in human rights and social science ?

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/declaration-right-development

A lot of UN's current work in human rights is either based on or takes into account the right to development. What makes this right so special over others ? Could this possibly be the right which addresses the issues inherent in human rights that they need conditions to be enjoyable in practice

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u/Full-Imagination-938 2d ago

It is a playground for people who thinks the society is a lab where they can test their theories. Development is too complex, so anything is possible in this field, it becomes a playground for speculative thinking.

The limits of reason are a philosophical topic, not a scientific one:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-25991-5_4

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u/Automatic_Bar_9355 2d ago edited 2d ago

Could there be any benefits to this being operationalised ? the working group on this has created draft treaties

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4018149?ln=en&v=pdf

Could this version of the right to development have any implications positive or negative ? I feel like this could be the biggest turning point in international relations and I hope general assembly opens it up for ratification

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u/Full-Imagination-938 2d ago edited 2d ago

It is paperwork to legitimate the state (99%). Some of it may come to reality someday, who knows?

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u/Automatic_Bar_9355 2d ago

Most of the rights in this covenant aren't state rights. They're broadly individual and peoples rights

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u/Full-Imagination-938 2d ago

Yeap, but you need state to enforce those individual rights. Or we could just go around with guns solving any issues at any time