The Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights: A Critical Early Review

ISBN-13: 9780367519797 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 148 str.

Inga Winkler; Carmel Williams

Opis

The book provides a critical early review of the Sustainable Development Goals from the perspective of human rights. It examines the goals, targets, and indicators with a focus on their potential to reduce inequalities and ensure accountability. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Spis treści

1. The Sustainable Development Goals and human rights: a critical early review Inga T. Winkler and Carmel Williams 2. Tackling inequality through the Sustainable Development Goals: human rights in practice Ignacio Saiz and Kate Donald 3. Vertical inequalities: are the SDGs and human rights up to the challenges? Gillian MacNaughton 4. Leaving no one behind? Persistent inequalities in the SDGs Inga T. Winkler and Margaret L. Satterthwaite 5. Evaluating the health-related targets in the Sustainable Development Goals from a human rights perspective Audrey R. Chapman 6. Neglecting human rights: accountability, data and Sustainable Development Goal 3 Carmel Williams and Paul Hunt 7. Economic growth, full employment and decent work: the means and ends in SDG 8 Diane F. Frey

O autorze

Inga Winkler is a lecturer in the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. She leads the programming on economic, social and cultural rights. Prior to joining Columbia, Inga was the Legal Adviser to the　UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation.

Carmel Williams, PhD, is a senior research officer in the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology project at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. She is also the Executive Editor of the Health and Human Rights Journal, published at the FXB Center, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston.