Working together: the Human Rights based approach to Development Cooperation Stockholm Workshop 16-19 October 2000

In October 2000 the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Swedish NGO Foundation for Human Rights convened a workshop on the human rights approach to development cooperation. The workshop was facilitated by André Frankovits and Patrick Earle of the Human Rights Council of Australia (HRCA). Most of the bilateral and multilateral agencies and non-governmental organizations that were invited already have policies on the inter-relationship between human rights and development cooperation. However most of them are also grappling with what changes in practice flow from the increasing policy emphasis on human rights in general, and economic and social rights in particular.