Justice Anand calls for making Human Development basic Human Right

New Delhi, Jun 28 (UNI) National Human Rights Commission Chairperson Justice A S Anand has called for making human development a basic Human Right rather than undertaking it only for economic purpose.

In a speech at the First Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva yesterday, Justice Anand asked the Council to move towards bringing the rights perspective on the centrestage in the debate over equality of opportunities.

He said universality of human rights demands eradication of global inequalities and to achieve this the importance of right to development has to be emphasized.

Stressing that the aim of human rights is empowerment of people through human development, Justice Anand said human rights are inter-dependent and inter-related and have a direct relationship with Human Development.

Referring to the wide global disparities in different parts of the world, he said they are linked to varying level of human development and must be minimised to ensure that basic needs of everyone throughout the world are met.

Justice Anand called for developing strategies to achieve the result and said the potential of all human beings should be fully realised in order to work for true Human Development.

Asserting that poverty is the biggest violator of human rights, he said eradication of poverty should not be treated merely as a developmental product but the agenda for such a development must include provision of all basic amenities to the people.

NHRC was the only Commission invited to make a statement at the Human Rights Council.

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