by Steven L. B. Jensen, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights
"The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are renewing the debate on the relationship between human rights and development. In 2005, Philip Alston famously described the relationship between the Millennium Development Goals and human rights “as ships passing one another in the night, each with little awareness that the other is there, and with little if any sustained engagement with one another.”
This changed with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015. With the SDGs, UN member states agreed to ground the new agenda in international human rights law and that the SDGs aim to realize the human rights of all. That commitment is backed by an analysis showing that over 90% of the 169 SDG targets are linked to standards from the international human rights and labour rights frameworks."
To read the blog post, click here.