One of the main outcomes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, was the agreement by Member States to launch a process to develop a set of ustainable development goals (SDGs). In January 2013, the General Assembly tasks a 30-member Open Working Group (OWG) with the preparation of a proposal on the SDGs. This page compiles the works of this group, with resources from meetings, publications, statements, decisions and more.

Aspects of what was to become SDG 16 were deliberated in the following OWG sessions:

• Session 6 (December 2013): Human rights and the right to development
• Session 8 (February 2014): Governance and peace

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