Boosting the realisation of the 2030 Agenda

Many people across the EU risk being left behind, as growing intolerance and attacks on people’s fundamental rights continue to erode the considerable progress achieved to date. That is the main conclusion in FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2019. The report reflects on the developments and shortfalls of human rights protection in the EU over the past year and contains a whole chapter emphasizing the importance of delivering the SDGs with human rights embedded within them.

The chapter explores the interrelationship between human rights and the SDGs in the EU context. It takes a particularly close look at the goals related to reducing inequality and to promoting peace, justice and strong institutions.

Databases strengthen the connection between human rights and the SDGs

A number of tools and practices that can help both decision-makers, development agencies, policy planners and rights holders boosting the realisation of the 2030 Agenda are highlighted in the report. Among them are two databases developed by the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
One of them is the ‘Human Rights Guide to the SDGs’, which demonstrates the significant extent to which SDGs are linked with international and regional human rights standards.

The other, the ‘SDG-Human Rights Data Explorer’ links more than 150,000 recommendations of the human rights system to SDG implementation.

“States have already accepted and obliged to these human rights recommendations, so it is a framework that they are already familiar with and accountable to. Linking these commitments to the realization of the 2030 Agenda will ultimately streamline the efforts and increase efficiency, policy coherency and accountability,” Deputy Executive Director at the Danish Institute for Human Rights Eva Grambye says about the ‘SDG-Human Rights Data Explorer’.