308188 (v.1) Human Rights and Development 507

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Area:	Faculty of Education, Language Studies and Social Work
Contact Hours:	2.0
Credits:	25.0
Seminar:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Ideas of development - economic development and social development. Critiques of conventional development models. The relationship of human rights to development issues and development practice. Colonialism and anti-colonialist practice . Human rights abuses of Indigenous populations in the name of 'development'. Indigenous understandings of human rights and Indigenous challenges to colonialist development. Community Development and human rights. Human rights and world poverty. Human rights and environmental issues. Human rights and business, especially in the developing world.