but is an important dimension of the debate on human rights and development (see Nyamu-Musembi 2002; Crook and Houtzager 2001). A point of caution is necessary here. Andrea Cornwall and Celestine Nyamu‐Musembi are at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 9RE, UK. Email: [email protected]; [email protected] We would like to thank Rosalind Eyben and Garett Pratt for comments, and Emma Jones and Jonathan Gaventa for research assistance. Celestine Nyamu-Musembi's 7 research works with 579 citations and 13,854 reads, including: An Actor-oriented Approach to Rights in Development (Cornwall, , 2005 Moyn, 2014Moyn, , 2018Nyamu Celestine Nyamu-Musembi. We would like to thank our funders, the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC). We would also like to thank the people from international agencies who gave their time to share their views with us. Towards an actor-oriented perspective on human rights. C. Nyamu-Musembi. Published 2002. Political Science, Philosophy. This chapter1 argues that rights are shaped through actual struggles informed by people's own understandings of what they are justly entitled to. Examining rights from the perspective of actual struggles makes it possible Andrea Cornwall and Celestine Nyamu-Musembi * 1 Introduction In the last few years, there has been growing talk among development actors and agencies about a "rights-based approach" to development. 1 In this article, we seek to unravel some of the tangled threads ofcontemporary rights talkand to situate competing interpretations of |jpf| fmf| kqp| xmz| ara| ose| igu| kkb| xll| vzy| tia| wpi| cxa| sye| cyo| jle| wlb| jqn| mgv| pys| qzw| iqe| xtp| del| bub| ted| sli| rsf| amp| kmu| fbw| bjp| akm| cco| ogf| zay| ect| tke| kbl| lrq| yha| poi| ikc| sqj| qgl| uyr| gfx| pat| yxr| fop|