Adding her voice to the High Commissioner’s call to action, United Nations Under-Secretary-General Amina Mohammed warned in a video message that the right to development “still unrealized by billions of people” is “hurting injured (while) the planet is on fire. The world cannot wait.”
mark 35order Commemorating the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development in Dong Nhan Quyen Association This week in Geneva, Mr. Türk stressed that the value of this landmark agreement comes from of equal importance it gives everyone economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights.
“We are seeing inequality escalating to dangerous levels. Mr. Türk said at the Geneva forum on Tuesday that climate change and biodiversity loss are outpacing our remediation efforts.
“I believe that progress in the full realization of human rights can reverse this destructive spiral and can re-establish the basis for dialogue. and sustainable development among and within Member States.”
The High Commissioner continued: “One right should not be prioritized over another. Political freedoms are “no more important than social or cultural rights”, just as civil liberties are no less important than the attainment of economic rights.
dangerous inequality
All countries should admit it “inevitable interdependence” and work together, the United Nations head of rights continued, as he warned that the key Sustainable development goals – agreed by all UN member states in 2015 – was “slipped off the trackmostly by COVID-19 pandemic.
Global problems that can only be solved by a common multilateral approach include climate change and biodiversity loss, continued Mr Türk, pointing to a “serious impediment” to equality. gender and rights of women and girls, the invasion of Ukraine and other issues. geopolitical tensions simmer.
Development solutions
With an equally serious message of its own, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) The administrator, Achim Steiner, noted that “For the first timeThe latest Human Development Index – a measure of a country’s health, education and standard of living – has been decline globally for two consecutive years“.
When people are “down the street…in frustration at the lack of action on climate and the environment”, and when climate activists were “threatened, harassed and killed”, Mr. Steiner explained that with the cooperation of UNDP and others, national human rights organizations have been encouraged. play a role key role in addressing inequality related to climate change and environmental degradation.
On a personal level, the UNDP head also noted that tens of thousands of people have been helped to participate in their country’s development through the agency’s Climate Promise Initiative and through Nationally Determined Contribution consultations.
call for G20 cooperation
Further progress in securing the right to development could also be achieved if New financial resources can be found to promote the right to development in line with the UN Secretary-General’s new SDG Stimulus Plan, Mr. Steiner added.
This calls for the G20 group of industrialized nations to provide an annual $500 billion stimulus package for sustainable development, as well as new debt relief measures for developing countries.
“As part of these efforts, countries need to proposed target of spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on Official Development Assistance”, said the head of UNDP.
