Amnesty International’s new general secretary Salil Shetty says poverty and exclusion will continue unchallenged unless human rights take centre stage in development policy. Is he right?

At a talk at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton on Thursday, a member of the audience explained how, while doing some recent work for a major development agency, he had been told todo a search-and-replace for all references to human rights in policy documents.

It was, he said, a typical example of how human rights were being steadily eradicated from the language of development organisations and donors.

Some governments are threatened by an enforceable, rights-based approach to development as it requires systemic change and infinite capacity.

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