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SDG SERIES: SDGs Adopting a Rights-based Approach to Human Trafficking
SDG Goal 8: Good Jobs and Economic Growth
Angela Duger
The proposed 2030 agenda for sustainable development, likely to be approved later this September, contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets. Three of these targets…
SDG SERIES: The SDG on Decent Work: Human Right or Business as Usual?
SDG Goal 8: Good Jobs and Economic Growth
Gillian MacNaughton and Diane F. Frey
Full employment and decent work are key components of a strategy to eliminate poverty, as most people must work to avoid poverty. Decent work is also a social…
SDG SERIES: SDGs Treatment of TB and the Right to Health is Woefully Inadequate
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Brian Citro
The proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) appear to be an improvement, or at least a thoughtful reaction, to some persistent criticisms of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Among these criticisms…
SDG SERIES: Leaving No One Behind: Human Rights and Accountability are Fundamental to Addressing Disparities in Sexual and Reproductive Health
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
By Rebecca Brown
At the upcoming Summit to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN will adopt the broadest political agreement to date, which in its Preamble announces the goals of eradicating poverty and…
SDG SERIES: Inconsistent translation from science to practice: SDGs and the health impacts of climate change
SDG Goal 13: Climate Action
Cecilia Sorensen and Jay Lemery
In the upcoming weeks, the UN will choose how seriously to commit political resources to halt climate change. Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Agenda)…
SDG SERIES: The Slippery Target for Child Survival in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Elizabeth D. Gibbons
After much public consultation and global negotiation, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has been agreed, along with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 targets.1 The Agenda…
SDG SERIES: Evaluating Universal Health Coverage as a Sustainable Development Goal
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
Audrey R. Chapman
The draft Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are likely to be adopted at the September 2015 UN summit, identify achieving universal health coverage (UHC) as one component of the omnibus health…
SDG SERIES: What Might the SDGs Mean for Health and Human Rights? An Introduction to the Series
SDG Goal 3: Good Health
By Carmel Williams and Alison Blaiklock
This month world leaders gather at the UN Summit in New York to finalise and adopt the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The development of the SDGs has been a far more global…
No News is Good News: An Update on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
TPPA protests in Auckland, New Zealand (photo courtesy of Rhys Jones)
By Fran Quigley
The most important update on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is that there is no Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. At least not yet. Shortly…
Update: Australia Bars Health and Humanitarian Workers From Speaking About Human Rights Abuses
Caption: Doctors Against the Border Force Act protesting in Brisbane, 8 August 2015
By Alison Blaiklock
Doctors, health workers, teachers and other professionals across Australia continue to demonstrate against the legislation that bars health and…