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When most people talk about human rights, they think of freedom of speech, privacy, or political participation. But this week at the Forum on Global Human Rights Governance in Beijing, a different angle is taking center stage: the right to development.

Development itself is a form of human rights advancement. As global challenges grow more complex, the question is no longer what rights people should have, but how those rights can be made real in practice.

And for much of the world, development is exactly where that process begins.

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