Sustainable Recovery from COVID-19

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The 2030 Agenda, underpinned by human rights, provides a comprehensive blueprint for sustainable recovery from the pandemic
UN Secretary-General, ‘Human Rights and COVID-19: We are all in this together’ ...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have devastating effects on societies and economies around the world. It is negatively impacting the enjoyment of human rights and hampering progress towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 

The pandemic perpetuates and exacerbates existing patterns of vulnerability, discrimination and inequality and has further pushed back vulnerable and marginalized groups already left behind. 

In some cases, the pandemic has been used as a pretext for violating human rights and fundamental freedoms, including by shrinking democratic and civil society space. 

The concept of Sustainable Recovery is:
  • A conceptualisation of COVID-19 recovery, which builds on human rights and existing multi-stakeholder efforts to achieve the SDGs, and which is easy to understand, communicate, contextualise, operationalise and measure.
     
  • A way to focus attention on some of the most urgent priorities for COVID-19 response and recovery policies and strategies.
     
  • A strong framework for focusing on the poor, vulnerable and those furthest behind in COVID-19 recovery efforts and upholding the transformative potential of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development across the social, economic and environmental dimensions.​​​