Off late the literature on development has brought in the human rights issue. The contribution of Amartya Sen, among others, marks a radical departure from earlier approaches. One finds, in his framework of analysis, the human rights issue being related to a particular conceptualisation of development i.e., - development as FREEDOM. When freedom is acknowledged to be the principal end of development, then various kinds of freedoms such as political, social and so on. Where liberty of political participation as also of dissent become part and parcel of the development process become important. So such a framework, in corporate freedoms and rights also as being effective in enhancing economic progress.

The vector of attributes of development in terms of several kinds of freedoms and their interlinkages, in effect helps one to overcome the limitations of the narrower views of development that have tended to identify it with growth of gross national product or with rise in personal incomes and so on. Growth is of course an important means of expanding freedoms enjoyed by members of the society. But, freedom also depend on such other determinants as social and economic arrangements such as facilities for education or health as well as political and civil rights or the liberty to participate in public discussions a security.

Sen’s categorisation of rights has also enlarged the area of discourse on the human rights issue, removing much of the unfusion that exists in our mindset. Rights as legal entity with instrumental rather than any intrinsic value and right having intrinsic value in terms of value of right-fulfillment and disvalue of right-violation are two different categories. It is this latter category of rights which eventually lead towards such relevant inter relationships between rights, liberties and real opportunities. There inter linkages or inter dependencies help one to understand why human right within the core of the development process.

Such a framework may be suitable for identifying the major sources of "unfreedom" in terms of i) poverty ii) of tyranny iii) of poor economic opportunities iv) of systematic social deprivation v) of absence of basic public facilities vi) of intolerance vii) of over activity of repressive states and so on. In fact, it is these very objectives that have come to be included within the national and international human rights codes.