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Cover of the report "Human Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals – Pursuing Synergies"

Human rights and the sustainable development goals – pursuing synergies

The report provides a summary of an open-ended meeting held in 2017 in Satigny, Switzerland, which considered how to leverage the interdependent and mutually reinforcing nature of human rights and sustainable development.

In late 2016 a group of States, in consultation with interested NGOs, including the Universal Rights Group and the Danish Institute for Human Rights, set up a Group of Friends to consider and guide the UN human rights system’s support for the SDGs.

The Satigny meeting was then set in June 2017 and gathered more than 130 people, including high-level representatives and delegates from Geneva permanent missions, government institutions, UN agencies, national human rights institutions, and civil society.

As well as providing a summary of that meeting, the report also offers several conclusions and possible next steps. It seeks to ‘unpack’ the issues related to the convergence of the human rights agenda and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in order to contribute to the realisation of both agendas in a integrated and mutually reinforcing manner.

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