Can Human Rights Approach Help Eliminate Poverty in Timor-Leste?
Suara Timor Lorosae 2007-02-20 Opinion Can Human Rights Approach Help Eliminate Poverty in Timor-Leste? For the last few years, human rights approach has become a new paradigm for poverty reduction. It has become one the important steps for international institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank and the human rights community in their efforts to fight poverty. In the mid-1990s the human rights community began to promote the human rights issue as right-based approaches to poverty reduction. Nevertheless, it was not until Kofi Annan directed all UN agencies in 1997 to take into account the human rights issue in their development programs. Former World Bank President, James Wolfensohn and Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in their speeches at the opening of a Conference of Human Rights and Development held at New York University on March 1, 2004, both acknowledged that human rights framework can provide value to the development process which led to
