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The rights of persons with disabilities and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

The Institute has developed a matrix to demonstrate the links between the SDGs and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is “grounded in [..] international human rights treaties” and is informed, among others, by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Declaration on the Right to Development. The 2030 Agenda “seeks to realize the human rights of all”. It also explicitly seeks to ensure that no one is left behind, reflecting the fundamental human rights principle of non-discrimination. In order to ensure that no specific group of persons is left behind, the Agenda states that its follow-up and review processes should be informed by data which is high-quality, accessible, timely, reliable and disaggregated by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity, migration status, disability and geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts.

Given the explicit grounding of the 2030 Agenda and its related Goals and Targets in international human rights treaties, this publication has been developed to demonstrate the links between the SDGs and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It is a tool to enable practitioners in the development and human rights fields, and organisations working specifically on issues relating to persons with disabilities, to begin to build their human rights-based approach to implementing and/or monitoring progress towards the achievement of the SDGs for persons with disabilities, through identifying their specific rights that are of relevance to the SDG Goals and Targets.

The report was made in collaboration with the International Disability Alliance.

The report is available in both English, French and Spanish.

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