seminar on concept and development of human rights
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We will not enjoy development without security, we will not enjoy security without development, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights. Report of the UN Secretary-General, ‘In larger Freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all’, 2005.
When the interrelationship between human rights and development co-operation was established in the 1970s, the linkage between the two concepts was often connected with debates about the discontinuation of assistance to a country whose government grossly violated human rights and the punitive aspect of the linkage appeared to prevail in public opinion. Most donors have had experiences with the withdrawal of aid, often a much debated and not necessarily effective measure; and active promotion of human rights through, for example, assistance to the judiciary or human rights institutions, can be interpreted as interference in internal affairs.