Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Book Launch

Human Rights and Development in Africa: Interrogating
NEPAD's Missing Rights-Based Development Approach

by
Professor Kwame Boafo-Arthur
University of Ghana, Legon

The new partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) was launched in October 2001 with the aim of tackling Africa's Poverty Crisis. NEPAD is an admirable document, but it is rather simple in its analysis of the causes of poverty, and lack of sustainable development. It blames colonialisation as well as Western Organisations such as the IMF, but ignores the widespread lack of good governance. This factor has led to a failure to ensure basic human rights, including economic and social rights. NEPAD's neo-liberal underpinnings leading to privatization, further undermine the economic and social rights of the very people it is trying to help, respect for human rights underlines every global activity in our contemporary world, and will advance economic growth and development.

Speakers

Richard Bourne OBE, Director Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit & Director of CHRI Trustees
Issac Owusu-Mensah, Chri Ghana
Further speakers to be confirmed

Date & Venue

19th September 2003, 14:00 hrs
Menzies Room
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies
28 Russell Square
London, WC1B 5DS