Rethinking Rights and Global Development

to equip students with skills to critically analyse the power relations that underpin human rights discourse and practice.

• 1Have an understanding of the main historical developments in thinking about issues of rights and human rights in the development process
• 2Understand the main theoretical approaches to the analysis of rights; and claims to rights in the developing world
• 3Understand the principal contemporary debates around rights and human rights
• 4Appreciate the significance of gender, race, ethnicity, class and colonialism in analysing issues of rights.