A Poverty of Rights: Six Ways to Fix the MDGs

Langford, Malcolm

doi:10.1111/j.1759-5436.2010.00108.x

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“…The MDGs have been severely criticized from the perspective of human rights, often faulting them for their negative externalities (Langford 2010). The claim is often made that the MDGs do not include human rights; but this is incorrect.…”

Section: Human Rights and Global Targetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-2015 agenda: mission impossible?

Vandemoortele¹

2014

Development Studies Research

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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have stirred people and mobilized actors into action to foster human well-being. Most stakeholders want a similar agenda beyond 2015. The article argues that a post-2015 agenda fit for the purpose is not 'mission impossible'. Yet, it will require that some prerequisites are fulfilled which are currently being circumvented. Most importantly, two vital questions have to be answered regarding the ultimate purpose of global targets and whether the post-2015 agenda will be universal in scope or merely an extension of the existing global deal. Member states will also have to clarify the time horizon of the new agenda, its structure, its level of ambition, the benchmarks to be used, the integration of cross-cutting issues, as well as how to capture growing inequalities. Although they may seem technical in scope, most are political in nature. If stakeholders continue to focus on the list of global targets, the outcome of their negotiations will be either an overloaded agenda or no agenda at all. Each stakeholder has to choose between keeping the DNA of the MDGs intact -i.e. clear, concise, computable -or venturing into genetic modification that risks turning into an unending and fuzzy wish list.

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Section: Human Rights and Global Targetsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-2015 agenda: mission impossible?

Vandemoortele¹

2014

Development Studies Research

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“…For example, some countries, including some in Asia and Latin America, added extra or set higher targets when they were easy to reach. 42 Strengthens Primary Health Care Systems as Well as Focuses on Specific Exposures or Diseases. Policymakers increasingly recognize the importance of strong primary health care systems in targeting specific diseases and implementing programs focused on specific diseases.…”

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Health Consequences of Environmental Exposures in Early Life: Coping with a Changing World in the Post-MDG Era

Suk

Ruchirawat

Stein

et al. 2016

Annals of Global Health

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Despite overall progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals, large health discrepancies persist between developed and developing countries. The world is rapidly changing and the influences of societal change and climate change will disproportionately affect the world's most vulnerable populations, thus exacerbating current inequities. Current development strategies do not adequately address these disproportionate impacts of environmental exposures. The aim of this study was to propose a new framework to address the health consequences of environmental exposures beyond 2015. This framework is transdisciplinary and precautionary. It is based on identifying social and economic determinants of health, strengthening primary health systems, and improving the health of vulnerable populations. It incorporates deliberate plans for assessment and control of avoidable environmental exposures. It sets specific, measurable targets for health and environmental improvement.

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“…Even if similarities and complementarities exist between the MDGs and human rights (OHCHR, 2008;Sachs, 2005;UNDP, 2003UNDP, , 2007, it is clear that the MDGs address a very limited portion of the overall body of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) (Alston, 2005, p. 760) and that the content of some targets does not reflect the corresponding human rights standards (Langford, 2010;OHCHR, 2008). 2 In addition, the MDGs are not equally relevant to the situation of countries and regions at different stages of development and, as a consequence, do not reflect the obligation of states to progressively realize ESCR in accordance with their level of development.…”

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Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Faraway, so Close?

Cecchini

Notti²

2011

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities

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The objective of this article is to identify some key dimensions for a human rights-based approach (HRBA) in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) monitoring processes. We aim to highlight not only how this can bring human rights and the MDGs closer to each other, but also how it can contribute to better results in the achievement of the latter. Within this framework, the article describes how a HRBA could contribute to redressing the main weaknesses of the MDGs and gives an overview of good practices and challenges in incorporating a HRBA into the MDG monitoring processes in Latin American and Caribbean countries, with a particular focus on the preparation of MDG reports.Millenium Development Goals, Development, Human rights, Human rights based approach, Latin America and the Caribbean, MDG Monitoring,

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A Poverty of Rights: Six Ways to Fix the MDGs

Cited by 69 publications

References 5 publications

Post-2015 agenda: mission impossible?

Post-2015 agenda: mission impossible?

Health Consequences of Environmental Exposures in Early Life: Coping with a Changing World in the Post-MDG Era

Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights: Faraway, so Close?

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