Strengthning policy through dialoge
by Steven L. B. Jensen, Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights Blog, Blog, By invitation
This post first appeared on OpenGlobalRights . In December, UNDP launched the Human Development Report 2019 . It was announced in advance that the new report would reconceptualize human development around the concept of inequality. This framing offers a more holistic take on existing injustices around the world. The report combines income and wealth inequalities with those more traditionally associated with human development such as health …
by Steven L. B. Jensen, Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights Blog, Blog, By invitation
The SDGs are mostly aligned with human rights objectives — to emphasise this, the UN human rights mechanisms are showing a willingness to hold states accountable to their SDG commitments. 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 …