Africa: Liberia Calls for Stronger Global Framework to Realise the Right to Development

Liberia’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs has called for urgent reforms to strengthen the institutional framework supporting the Right to Development, a principle first proclaimed by the United Nations in 1986 and reaffirmed in subsequent global agreements.

According to a dispatch from Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Cllr. Jeddi Mowbray Armah addressing the 2026 Forum on Global Human Rights Governance emphasized that while the Right to Development has gained normative recognition…