Human Rights in Human Development Co-operation - a Review on Whether the Icelandic International Development Agency Improves Human Rights in Namibia

Human Rights in Human Development Co-operation - a Review on Whether the Icelandic International Development Agency Improves Human Rights in Namibia

B.A. Thesis (Law) - Human Development Co-operation (HDC-op) has been a part of the international community for a few decades but not everyone agrees on what HDC-op is supposed to achieve. A group of people believes that HDC-op should aim at promoting human rights. Lately HDC-op has expanded and the projects are getting bigger. As a result HDC-op has been criticized and some even go as far as saying that it is useless while other say that it is very helpful. Three projects run by the Icelandic International Human Development Agency (ICEIDA) in Namibia are examined from the legal point of view. Then the compatibility of selected ICEIDA development projects in Namibia with international human rights standards is considered to see to what extend the ICEIDA projects promote human rights and to evaluate whether and to what extent they might better promote these aims. In order to do that the project are compared with the human rights section of the Namibian and the Icelandic constitutions as well as different treaties which these countries have ratified as well as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

Valgerður Húnbogadóttir

http://skemman.is/handle/1946/1619

University of Akureyri

2008

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English