Intersectionality, Economic Justice and the Right to Development

This publication is a summary of a submission, sent to the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development in June 2023 in response to a call to inform his vision-setting report. In this submission, SRI called for the Special Rapporteur to address inequalities and the right to development from an intersectional perspective, and to provide a thematic report dedicated to gender and the right to development.

In this summary we explore:

• How is intersectionality a useful lens for looking at the right to development?
• How does an economic justice approach to the right to development contributes to a human rights-based economy and an equitable global economic order?
• What is economic justice?
• Identifying pressing issues for feminist and sexual rights activism in the UN human rights system
  • Gender perspectives on the right to development

  • Degrowth and just transition

  • Right to development and self-determination in contexts of (neo-)colonialism, imperialism, occupation and indebtedness

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