Should Human Rights Law Play a Role in Development?
质疑要求发展机构遵守人权法的做法，认为人权法针对国家而非非政府组织，将其应用于发展项目会增加官僚成本并导致主观审查。
Many human rights advocates believe that development agencies—agencies that define their mission as providing economic and technical aid to impoverished countries—should be required to respect and promote human rights law. This style of human rights imperialism should be resisted. While development agencies should obviously comply with domestic law and try to promote good rather than bad outcomes, there is no benefit in holding them to human rights law. Human rights law was designed for states, not for NGOs, and how it would be applied to NGOs is far from obvious. Because of the ambiguity and vast scope of human rights law, the practical effect of these proposals would be to add another layer of bureaucracy to development projects while subjecting those projects to scrutiny by lawyers with little to guide them but their intuitive notions of right and wrong.