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Operationalisation of the Right to Development in Africa — Cameroon Cas: Challenges, games and opportunities

Abstract

In a purely dialectic view of human rights in Africa, the right to development is now a response to underdevelopment on the continent. Asserting as an inalienable human right in the African context, the right to development had initially been the subject of serious criticism. It has also been built on the background of controversy since the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development of 1986; they have skinned its binding scope from the point of view of its realisation as human rights. However, this is ‘an inalienable human right under which every human person and all peoples have the right to participate in and contribute to economic, social, cultural and political development in which all human rights and fundamental freedoms can be fully realised, and to benefit from that development’. The right to development is thus a real right living in the African human rights system. He is litigated before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, as well as before the African Court of Human Rights. However, the realisation of the right to development remains a concern in Africa. It does not materialise and appears to be conditioned by current and appropriate measures that can guarantee the development and well-being of the population. Hence the question of: how can this be achieved? This book provides practical solutions for the realisation of the right to development in Africa and in particular in Cameroon. The chapters of this book were published after a scientific peer review following their presentation at the Multidisciplinary Colloquium held in Douala (Cameroon). The Colloque was organised by the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (University of South Africa), together with academic partners and various development institutions with a view to contributing to the realisation of the right to development in Africa and Cameroon in particular.

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