Human Rights Consortium

The Sustainable Development Goals: Whither Human Rights?

Corinne Lennox
(Senior Lecturer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies)

Priya Nath
(Global Policy and Advocacy Advisor [Post-2015] - VSO and Gender and Development Network)

Savio Carvalho
(Senior Advisor on Campaigning on International Development and Human Rights - Amnesty International)

Phil Vernon
(Head of Programmes - International Alert)

Neva Frecheville
(Lead Analyst Post-2015 - CAFOD)

The UN General Assembly will finally adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the end of September 2015 after several years of negotiation. The SDGs are meant to replace the Millennium Development Goals, which guided development policy for the period 2000-2015. The MDGs were not without their critics from a human rights perspective. Civil society has been lobbying hard for a more human rights-based approach in the SDGs. Have they succeeded? This event, to launch the Human Right in the Headlines series, will invite experts from different fields to give their take on how the SDGs reflect human rights, how they can be used to achieve human rights or whether opportunities for human rights have been missed in the final package.

This Seminar is part of the Human Rights Consortium's flagship series 'Human Rights in the Headlines'.