The Millennium Development Goals and the human rights based approach: reflecting on structural chasms with the United Nations system

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira Domínguez Redondo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach ◽  
Nations System

Language in the United Nations post-2015 development agenda

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Fettes
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Planning ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
New Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System

The United Nations system has been engaged for some years in setting new development priorities to replace the Millennium Development Goals following their expiry in 2015. While language issues are almost wholly absent from documents intended to guide this policy process, there are thought-provoking implications for language planners in some of the key ideas advanced by agencies within the UN system. These include the need to address structural inequalities, greater emphasis on cities as loci of social planning and management, growing interest in social protection floors as a policy mechanism, and the implications of sustainable development as an alternative planning paradigm.

scholarly journals The Politics of LGBQTI Human Rights in the United Nations System

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic McGoldrick
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
System P ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System

The United Nations system has been a major global site of political and legal contestation for LGBTQI human rights. However, the lack of consensus has led to major divisions within the UN’s political institutions. The independent human rights institutions that do exist within the UN system have been more progressive in advancing LGBTQI issues.

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances: Challenges Ahead

2012 ◽  
pp. 127-168
Author(s):  
Gabriella Citroni ◽  
Maria Giovanna Bianchi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Convention ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Treaty Monitoring ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System

The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance was adopted on 20 December 2006 by the United Nations and opened for signature in Paris on 6 February 2007. The Convention entered into force on 23 December 2010. A new treaty-monitoring body within the United Nations system, named Committee on Enforced Disappearances , is entrusted with the implementation of the Convention. The establishment of this new human rights mechanism at a time when the whole system of human rights treaty bodies is being reviewed was extensively debated during the negotiations for the Convention. Nevertheless, the position of those that favoured the creation of a new committee eventually prevailed. The article aims at examining the various functions entrusted to the Committee, some of which are of an especially original nature compared to other United Nations treaty-monitoring bodies. Reference is made to good practices developed by other human rights mechanisms (both treaty bodies and special procedures within the United Nations, as well as regional human rights courts) that the Committee on Enforced Disappearance could consider, as well as potential mistakes to be avoided. The article will analyze both substantive matters relating to the interpretation of the provisions of the Convention, and more practical details concerning the functioning of the Committee, its methods of work and rules of procedure.

Eliminating Extreme Inequality: A Sustainable Development Goal, 2015–2030

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Doyle ◽  
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Member States ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, UN member states took a dramatic step by putting people rather than states at the center of the UN's agenda. In their Millennium Declaration, the assembled world leaders agreed to a set of breathtakingly broad goals touching on peace through development, the environment, human rights, the protection of the vulnerable, the special needs of Africa, and reforms of UN institutions. Particularly influential was the codification of the Declaration's development-related objectives, which emerged in the summer of 2001 as the now familiar eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to be realized by 2015.

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