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"Oxfam-Community Aid Abroad: Principles on a Human Rights Approach to Development, 2001" [2005] ELECD 306; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 83

Section Title: Oxfam-Community Aid Abroad: Principles on a Human Rights Approach to Development, 2001

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

83. Oxfam­Community Aid Abroad:
Principles on a Human Rights Approach
to Development, 2001

Commentary: The Oxfam Principles (Policy Serial No 2.2) illustrate NGO expec-
tations for greater commercial contributions to realising a human rights-oriented
approach to sustainable development. See further, Community Aid Abroad (2004),
`Mining Ombudsman Report'; www.oxfam.org.au.




Oxfam Community Aid Abroad acknowledges that without a respect for, and an under-
standing and promotion of human rights, there can be no real solution to poverty. While
governments and various sectors of society fail to provide the frameworks to support the
realisation of human rights for people and communities, there can be no long-term eradica-
tion of poverty.


Oxfam Community Aid Abroad Principles
In recent times Oxfam Community Aid Abroad has emphasised the use of a human rights
framework in our work. A rights based approach to development empowers people to
demand justice as a right, not as charity. We believe that the following human rights are
central for true and sustainable development:

(i) The right to a sustainable livelihood.
(ii) The right to basic services.
(iii) The right to life and security.
(iv) The right to be heard.
(v) The right to an identity: gender and diversity.

These human rights must be seen in the context of the international human rights instruments
including (but not limited to) the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR),
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); Convention on ...