Rights-based approaches
A human rights-based approach is a conceptual framework for the process of human development that is normatively based on international human rights standards and operationally directed to promoting and protecting human rights. It seeks to analyse inequalities which lie at the heart of development problems and redress discriminatory practices and unjust distributions of power that impede development progress.
According to the Policy on the Integration of a Sustainable Development Perspective into the processes of the World Heritage Convention, states should Adopt a rights-based approach, which promotes World Heritage properties as exemplary places for the application of the highest standards for the respect and realization of human rights.
Source(s):
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights