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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Mokhiber, Craig G.; 1
Affiliations: Palais Wilson 4-093, Office of the United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights -- UNOG-OHCHR, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 22 917 9292; Fax: +41 22 917 9010; E-mail: cmokhiber.hchr@unog.ch
Note: [1] Craig Mokhiber is Development Team Coordinator in the Research and Right to Development Branch of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The opinions expressed here are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the United Nations.
Abstract: While development and human rights have long been pursued in isolation from one another, the two concepts are now being reintegrated. For the UN, the question of indicators arose in the context of the Common Country Assessment (CCA) process, into which a rights-based approach to development was to be integrated. A rights-based approach is based on international human rights standards and directed to protecting human rights. Its elements include participation, accountability, non-discrimination, empowerment and linkage to the international standards. This creates demands for data that are not satisfied by traditional indicators. There is a need to base indicators on international standards; to use a comprehensive human rights framework; to integrate the “rights element” into existing indicators; to measure the subjective, status, capacity, official response, and accessibility. Data must be disaggregated further, to test equality and non-discrimination, and must be read in context. Indicators themselves must be designed as tools of development, not weapons of critique. The next stage of rights-based development will require the compilation of an agreed list of core development indicators for civil and political rights, to measure the administration of justice, political participation, and personal security. It will also require indicators for the measurement of cultural rights in development, and integrating the "rights element" into socio-economic indicators.
DOI: 10.3233/SJU-2001-182-304
Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 18, no. 2-3, pp. 155-162, 2001
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