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The sustainable development goals (SDGs)

This course is an introduction to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and their linkages with human rights.

This e-learning course focuses on the SDGs and explores how economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) are related to, and reflected in, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. You will also learn about how national human rights institutions' work to protect and promote human rights can support the implementation and monitoring of the SDGs.

Duration: approx. 20 minutes

 

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Target group: Human rights professionals

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic & Russian

Developed by: The Danish Institute for Human Rights. Content from other reliable sources

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

The 2030 Agenda is explicitly grounded in human rights, and the SDGs seek to realise human rights for all. Moreover, the pledge to leave no one behind reflects the fundamental human rights principles of non-discrimination and equality. In fact, analysis has shown that more than 90 % of the SDGs targets are linked to international human rights and labour standards.

Implementing the SDGs therefore implicitly promotes human rights, and vice versa. They thus constitute two mutually reinforcing narratives, the SDGs being backed up by high-level political commitments, and human rights providing standards that in many cases are legally binding. The SDGs can in some ways be seen as a way of operationalising human rights commitments.