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Chinese wisdom offers solutions to realizing right to development: African expert
By:chinahumanrights.org
update:December 13,2017

 
Dec. 13, 2017 -- Serge Kamba, professor of law at University of South Africa, gives an interview to Chinahumanrights.org. Photo/ Jiao Fei

Dec. 13, 2017 -- Themed on "Building a community with a shared future for mankind in the area of human rights",  the 6th Cross-cultural Human Rights Seminar was held in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province from Dec. 3 to Dec. 6, 2017.
 
The right to development has been officially declared by the United Nations as "an inalienable human right"  in 1986. Article 22 of the 1986 "African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights"  also specified the right to development. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has made great efforts to realize this right. China's interpretation and practices in recent years have proven that the right to development is a fundamental human right, said  Kamba, professor of law at University of South Africa, in his lecture titled "the right to development" during the seminar.
 
With a global perspective and drawing wisdom from its profound and inclusive culture, China has put forward the idea of "building a community with a shared future for mankind." That also explains why China holds that the rights to existence and development are the fundamental human rights. Africa should learn from China to explore its own path of human rights development based on its own history and culture, said Kamba.
 
Kamba said the idea meets the demand of today's world. In the past, countries focused on competing with each other for their own development. But now they are strengthening exchanges to seek win-win cooperation. Since the core of the idea is to build a safe and prosperous world where all countries are treated equally and with mutual respect, it should be regarded as the best way to realize the right to development.
 
The Cross-cultural Human Right Academy & the 6th Cross-cultural Human Rights Seminar was co-sponsored by Human Right Research Center of Shandong University and the Cross-culture Human Right Center of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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