Our Mission 

The Program on Human Rights in Development is concerned with the realization of human rights in the context of poverty reduction and development strategies. Through teaching, research and publications, HRID seeks to deepen understanding of the economic, legal, political, and ethical issues in integrating human rights into policies and programs of development. Research focuses on global partnerships, tobacco control, the right to development, implementation of economic, social and cultural rights, and the tension between economic and human rights perspectives on goals, instruments, resources, and indicators for children's rights and poverty reduction

Our History and projects 

The Program on Human Rights in Development was established as part of the FXB Center on Health and Human Rights in 1999. Since September 2006, it moved to the Department of Population and International Health. In addition to follow up to the Dutch-funded project on the Right to Development, the work plan of the Program on Human Rights in Development includes the Nobel book, the UNICEF project, the UNESCO project, the implementation of economic social and cultural rights project, the China-Inida project, the High-level Task force and miscellaneous publications