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Online learning course
Basic Introduction to the Right to Development
In collaboration with OHCHR, UNITAR has developed this e-platform learning course dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development. The course has four modules (1) Introduction (2) Historical background (3) United Nations mechanisms on the Right to Development and (4) The Right to Development responds to contemporary challenges, each followed by short quizzes. The course is free and available to all interested participants.
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Posters
"Development is a Human Right" posters in 6 UN official languages
UN Declaration on the Right to development (articles); available in six official UN languages
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Quote from the High Commissioner for Human Rights; available in six official UN languages
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Publications
A booklet containing the text of the Declaration on the Right to Development (each article illustrated by a photo); available in six official UN languages
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A book “Realizing the Right to Development: Essays in Commemoration of 25 Years of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development
In commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development, this UN publication presents for the first time a wide range of in-depth analytical studies by more than 30 international experts covering the context, meaning and application of this right and its potential to shape human rights and development policy and practice. Together they support the concept of an enabling environment for development that would ensure freedom from want and freedom from fear for all people.
A pamphlet introducing OHCHR's book “Realizing the Right to Development: Essays in Commemoration of 25 Years of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development”
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