The UN Human Rights Council Working Group is working on a fresh global treaty –A pact for the right to development. The basic premise of the Pact is the seemingly uncontroversial commitment of states to commitment to building universal and as broad a prosperity as possible.The Pact is intended to form the basis for "the creation of a social and global order conducive to the exercise of the right to development", strengthening global political pressures leading to the unification of moral principles, social and economical relations.The Pact shows, among another things, the work to legalise abortion, the work to completely and overall disarm and the work to build an “inclusive society”, that is, in fact, a multicultural society.
In the autumn of 2023, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations Zamir Akram presented a study to the UN Human Rights Council on a draft global treaty establishing a fresh human right: the right to development.
The right to improvement is considered to be a "synthesis of all rights", i.e. to express the state's desire to guarantee universal and broadly understood prosperity. However, the survey prepared by the experts of the Ordo Iuris Institute shows that there are empty-word declarations and threatening legal obligations under this prominent objective.
On the 1 hand, the Pact is full of noble demands, specified as ensuring equal access to food, water and education, eliminating poverty, combating arms smuggling and promoting global trade. However, as the Institute's analysis shows, the demands are so broad that it is hard to draw circumstantial legal standards from them, from which compliance could be accounted for by future Pact countries.
The pact's ghastly assumptions may stay unfulfilled, and alternatively it may form the basis for a fresh "social and global order conducive to the exercise of the right to development" (Article 13(4)), where stronger countries will impose on weaker states their imagination of "development", including morality, social and economical relations.
On the another hand, the Pact contains little general but dangerous demands, specified as an order for "equal and fair access to sexual and reproductive rights" or a "general and complete disarmament" of all States Parties. As a result, the Pact would require all States Parties to legalise abortion on request, as well as to systematically extend another aspects of sexual freedom, specified as sex education in kindergartens or access to contraception by advanced school youth. In turn, the implementation of the disarmament call would leave defenceless States-Parties to those countries that would not accede to the Pact. The agreement does not restrict the scope of disarmament to the armed forces and will so likely include police and law enforcement services.
The Ordo Iuris Institute besides points to the highly low legislative quality of the project, which is more like a political programme declaration than a legal act: it lacks legal definitions, repeats the same content repeatedly in another words, formulates most of the commitments in a vague, vague and empty-worded style.
The improvement Rights Pact is at the working stage. Following the adoption of the draft by the Human Rights Council, it will be submitted to the UN General Assembly, which will be able to convene an intergovernmental conference on the adoption of the final version of the Pact. What is important, however, is that the risks associated with this Treaty will only apply to those countries which are bound voluntarily.
The full content of the analysis can be read HERE.
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