The right to health and development 2011, para. 11
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- The "capabilities" approach first articulated by Sen and developed by Nussbaum, which underlies the concept of human development, at its core requires removal of major sources of "unfreedom" in order for development to occur, including poverty, poor economic opportunities, tyranny, neglect of public facilities, and social deprivations. This very acknowledgement allows a clear space in which human rights-based discourse can guide development. The capabilities approach recognizes rights as both "constitutive" of and "instrumental" to the overall process of development; that is, rights and freedoms are not only necessary tools in achieving the goals of development, but that realization of rights should constitute an end-goal of development itself. More particularly, this approach holds that human rights are entitlements which make up a part of a set of central capabilities: a core set of freedoms, or rights, which form the basis of the very opportunities necessary to achieving a requisite level of human development.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Health, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/17/25, para. 11.
- Paragraph number
- 11
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