The human rights guide to the SDGs

The human rights guide to the SDGs
The human rights guide to the Sustainable Development Goals will help anchor your work with human rights obligations. Find the guide here, goal by goal or in its entirety.

The Danish Institute for Human Rights has developed a human rights guide to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We have gone through all 17 goals and 169 targets to uncover their human rights anchorage, as well as the underlying indicators' human rights adequacy.

Our guide enables actors to use human rights as a driver for realising the SDGs – and to use the SDGs to realise human rights.

Useful insights for all relevant stakeholders

The guide provides useful insights for governments, UN agencies, National Human Rights Institutions and NGOs. Rights-holders directly addressed in the SDGs eg, women, persons with disabilities, youth, workers, indigenous peoples and business will also find helpful insights.

The guide helps:

  • States to incorporate the SDGs in their human rights reporting
  • To choose the right indicators for the SDG targets
  • To influence national-level implementation strategies and follow-up and review processes
  • To build capacity of NHRIs, major groups, business and others to lead a human rights-based approach to the realisation of SDGs.

How the guide works

The guide is meant as a reference work, where you can look up the human rights implication of a given goal, target or indicator.

Example: Target 4B

Target 4B states that by 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to people in developing countries.