At a global conference on racism, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is underscoring the need for concrete steps to combat intolerance and racial discrimination as a way of helping the world meet development targets...UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown...said that UNDP understands the inextricable link between human rights and human development and, thus, has adopted a rights-based approach to development. "This approach places people at the centre of our efforts to address their economic, social, cultural, political and civil rights."