Right to Development Sample Clauses

Right to Development. E. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Page 3, Article 4 Resettlement and Rehabilitation:

Right to Development. The Sarawak Chief Minister has said of his concept of development: “For much of the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, the State develop- ment agenda has been guided by the philosophy of the Politics of Development (pod). As a concept, it is based on the overriding principle of equality and socio-economic justice and the exercising of the politi- cal will towards the achievement of that end. Development in this context is a total concept, involving at its core, the people, not just as beneficiaries of development but as active participants and motivating force in the development process. The need to inculcate such positive values and attitude as self-worth and self-reliance is fundamental for until there is a transformation of the mind, no real development can be effected.”8 This theoretically aligns the Sarawak state’s development concepts with such principles as espoused by xxxxxx, which talks of the right of indigenous communities “to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions” and their right to “freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”9 The Malaysian government is of course a signatory to undrip. However, the evidence presented to the Mission does not give any indication that these sorts of principles are respected, protected or promul- gated. Instead, the Mission’s evidence on specific issues demonstrates a denial of respect and denial of services to the Penans. And more gener- ally, the evidence concurs with those government statements which tell the Penans what they should do, and offer a prescription for their future which is at odds with the Penan culture, and certainly undermines their autonomy and their rights. This importantly includes the rights of Penan women and girls. Specific areas on which the Mission heard evidence included the right to citizenship, the right to education, the right to health and clean envi- ronment, and the right to redress. As well as listening to the situations as important issues in their own right, the links to the existence of sexual violence and exploitation were always borne in mind.