Impacts of Human Rights Violations on Human Development:A Critical Study of Post-Colonial Zimbabwe

• Main Authors: DLAMINI, DUMILE NTENDE, 杜米妮
• Other Authors: HWANG, JI-JEN
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28176558916289411141

碩士 === 國防大學 === 戰略研究所 === 105 === The study is located within a dispute that Africa cannot fully develop as long as pre-existing human rights violations remain not considered, dealt with properly and pertinently in the 21st century and beyond. This subject will be explored using a case study of Zimbabwe where human rights violations and human development appear to be interacting through the persistence of dramatic underdevelopment within the country. Therefore, the focal point of the study is pedestal upon the interconnectedness of human rights and human development. To accomplish this, the study observes and apertures over factors of violations that may have impeded human development in Zimbabwe. The perspective is to convey with reference to an understanding that human rights are more imperative for Africa’s development. It will be argued that the failure and stoppage to observe human rights in many African countries springs the inability to craft sustainable development initiatives for the continent. Given the way the African Union reacted to the Zimbabwean crisis, questions, whether human rights are important to Africa, should be posted. Among other things, this study explores means in which the continent can ensure the realisation of rights, and how to defend these rights - whenever they are attacked and trampled upon. The aim of this research is to develop a critical perspective of a rights-based approach to the development of those communities who are suffering from injustices of underdevelopment. While secondary research is used, most sources are those with primary data which represents the reliability and validity of the study. Findings echo that there are inseparable interactions, relations between human rights violations and the impact of human development process. As in each other's pocket, the indivisible relationship between human development and human rights determines a sustainable economic growth of human development index in a country. Failure to adhere, has resulted in a lack of development in countries with less human right recognition, requiring them to adopt a universal human right paradigm to help alleviate human underdevelopment.