Olivier de Schutter

Olivier de Schutter Co-Chair, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Centre for Philosophy of Law (CPDR) Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Legal Sciences (JUR-I), University of Louvain (UCL)

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The Second Generation Challenges of the Right to Development (II): Is there an International Duty to Cooperate towards the Realization of the Right to Development? 

The Second Generation Challenges of the Right to Development (II): Is there an International Duty to Cooperate towards the Realization of the Right to Development? 

In my previous post, I noted that the right to development should be rejuvenated by building on recent advances of international human rights law, which strengthened the international obligations of States -- not towards their own ...
The Second Generation Challenges of the Right to Development (I): Can the Right to Development be Rescued? 

The Second Generation Challenges of the Right to Development (I): Can the Right to Development be Rescued? 

More than thirty years have passed since the UN General Assembly proclaimed the right to development, but its promise remains largely unfulfilled. The right to development was intended to contribute to the reshaping of international ...