In line with my research interests in the politics of global development and inequalities (understood as a historically constituted global project/ world politics), I have over the past couple of years been developing a research project on Human Rights (HR) and Global Development. My preliminary research findings suggest that there are some quite significant tensions in the emerging HR and Global Development framework. This is most evident with regard to the privileging of rights that align with global commercial and investment (including free trade) law as justiciable rights. Increasingly trade law (lex mercatoria) is aligned with development law. The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs] agenda is the most recent high-level international development framework also adopted as a United Nations Resolution. This particular alignment of HR and Global Development could potentially result in further conflict as life sustaining needs such as water, food, shelter (to name a few) are no longer conceived as universal entitlements. Instead, their realisation is now tethered to the question of »trade law«, which is increasingly the domain of justiciable rights. For instance, this concerns the protection of new forms of investment law as property law as provided for under the General Agreement of Trade in Services of the World Trade Organisation [WTO]. This emerging global framing of HR and Global Development occurs arguably at a historically unique conjuncture and one that has also been subject to crucial challenges, ethically, socially and politically (see, for instance, the recent rise of social movement politics). (Heloise Weber)