Health and Human Rights
Volume 15, Issue 2
http://www.hhrjournal.org/

Editorial: The post-2015 development agenda, human rights, evidence, and open-access publishing
Carmel Williams
Health and Human Rights 2013, 15/2
http://www.hhrjournal.org/2013/12/10/editorial-the-post-2015-development-agenda-human-rights-evidence-and-open-access-publishing/

Excerpt
In the current planning phase for the post-2015 development agenda, there is guarded optimism that human rights will occupy a more central role than they did in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) facilitated global consultations in 2012 to shape the post-2015 development agenda. Nineteen UN Task Team “thematic think pieces” resulted, most of which specifically refer to the importance of integrating human rights into development goals. The UNDP acknowledged an emerging global endorsement of human rights-based approaches to development, based on the principles of participation, accountability, non-discrimination, empowerment and the rule of law, and that it must be the core of the post-2015 agenda.1…
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