South Sudan: Is There Any Legal Right to Development - the Case of South Sudan

10 February 2013
opinion

Legal rights are those rights that any human person, or any legal person, can sue for in any court of law, and if these rights are violated, they can claim remedies or damages.

However, when people speak of development as a process of socio-economic/financial, technological, cultural and political positive change, in human society, various issues come to play. Many people do not agree over the issues; whether, the notion of development is a legal right, in a formalistic and legalistic sense. However, it is important to mention that, when issues of development are viewed from some aspects of international human rights law, there arise controversies whereby, some people would like to argue that, yes, issues of development are now becoming legal rights that, those who suffer from the lack of development, can sue whosoever is in charge of their development processes, because, it means that, some human rights to development have been violated.

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