Constructing a new rights regime: Promises, problems and prospects

Abstract

This article reflects on the interface between issues of poverty and deprivation which is the life-condition of the large majority in the countries of the South, and the approaches to human rights which have attempted to take on board such issues. The article consists of three sections. The first section is an introduction which presents the basic premise of the discussion in the article. The second section outlines the key elements defining the human rights and development debates. The third section examines in some detail approaches to litigation practices developed in India and elsewhere, which take into account notions of human rights and the right to development introduced in earlier sections of the article.