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Eradicating extreme poverty is an indispensable requirement for sustainable development
by OHCHR, UN News, IPS, Reuters Foundation
6:47am 24th Jun, 2016
 
2030 Development Goals: “No one should be left behind, and no human right ignored” – UN experts
  
The largest body of independent experts in the United Nations Human Rights system has warned that some States and sponsoring private actors are already ‘cherry-picking’ goals and targets in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and overlooking basic rights.
  
“Rather than treating all 17 Sustainable Development Goals in the 2030 Agenda on equal footing to protect the most marginalized and vulnerable and enhance their situation, we are already witnessing some goals getting more support than others,” the experts said.
  
“The strong and urgent commitment to ensure that no one is left behind can only be realised if equally no human right is left behind.”
  
The UN experts call comes as participants at the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development gathered in New York for the first follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  
“The 2030 Agenda addresses many pressing issues worldwide: poverty, rapid urbanization, hunger and malnutrition, unemployment, and inadequate access water and sanitation or ending HIV/AIDS to name only a few. But it is, after all, a set of goals and targets not intended to replace international human rights obligations,” they said.
  
The UN experts stressed that the effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda depends on it being consistent with the overarching commitment to human rights. This includes accountability, non-discrimination and equality, notably gender equality, and clear consideration of the primacy of States’ human rights obligations.
  
“For example, it would be inconsistent with human rights to interpret the call for clean energy, or the upgrading of slums, without due and consistent protection against displacement of indigenous peoples and forced evictions of millions of urban dwellers, that can occur if policies are divorced from a human rights standards,” they noted.
  
In a similar vein, the private sector’s contribution to the 2030 Agenda must take place with due regard to its responsibility to do no harm and respect human rights.
  
The human rights experts emphasised that the focus on the 2030 Agenda should in no way become ‘the perfect excuse’ to give less priority to their binding human rights obligations, or to ignore the comprehensive protection that is at the core of international human rights instruments.
  
“The 2030 Agenda’s explicit promise is to reach the most excluded groups first, hence we urge all participants in the HLPF to make this their compass in their deliberations,” they concluded. http://bit.ly/29Awr0C http://bit.ly/29y960L
  
July 2016
  
Human rights are not ‘abstract ideas,’ they must be main tool in meeting development targets
  
Far greater emphasis must be placed on human rights as the international community continues to work towards implementing the agreed-upon sustainable development agenda, because it is the most powerful driver of peace and development, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.
  
“Human rights are norms and standards, against which institutions and Governments are measured. But they are not just abstract ideas, or aspirations to be addressed once peace and development have been attained. They call for extremely specific and concrete actions on the part of States and other authorities,” the Secretary-General said at the opening of a High-Level Thematic Debate of the General Assembly on human rights at the centre of the global agenda.
  
“In our deeply connected world, all Member States have a shared best interest in promoting individual and collective human rights as a basis for global peace and prosperity,” the Secretary-General added.
  
The UN chief highlighted that while much of the world is benefiting from enormous progress in their economic, social, cultural, civil, and political situations, at the same time, racism and homelessness are rising in Europe; organized violence has taken root in parts of Latin America; deadly conflict continues in the Middle East; and economic, social and political marginalization affect millions of people in Asia.
  
“Some governments are sharply restricting people’s ability to exercise their rights, attacking fundamental freedoms and dismantling judicial institutions that limit executive power. Others are detaining and imprisoning human rights defenders and clamping down on civil society and non-governmental organizations, preventing them from performing their vital work,” the UN chief said.
  
At the same time, Mr. Ban said, respect for international human rights and humanitarian law is being eroded, as the world faces the highest numbers of people displaced by conflict since the World War II and abuses continue against civilians who are starved, denied humanitarian aid and prevented from moving to places of safety.
  
“When does this end?” he asked, adding: “The answer must be that it ends now. Governments must meet their responsibilities. The foremost tool for this change is human rights – the most powerful driver of peace and development.”
  
“Human rights are at the heart of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from ending poverty to reducing inequality and promoting peaceful and inclusive societies,” the Secretary-General said.
  
“In this crucial first year of implementation, let us recognize the need for far greater emphasis on human rights across all our work,” he added.
  
The Secretary-General said that the evidence in country after country over many years shows that repressive policies against violent extremism and terrorism make nobody safe.
  
“When Governments undertake actions under the guise of counter-terrorism that disregard human rights, they reinforce feelings of exclusion and grievance, increase resentment and fuel extremism and terrorism around the world,” Mr. Ban said.
  
The Secretary-General said that his Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism makes clear that preventing extremism and promoting human rights go hand-in-hand.
  
“Human rights offer States a clear path towards stability and prosperity. They build confidence and loyalty, as well as thriving political and economic institutions,” Mr. Ban said. “They are an indispensable part of our quest for a safer and more stable world, with dignity for all.”
  
UN General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft, highlighted that less than a year ago, all 193 Member States of the Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda, providing hope that the world could be transformed for the better.
  
“But if today’s leaders do not reignite their commitment to human rights; reject the rhetoric of division and hate; and address the drivers of today’s tensions – joblessness, inequalities, climate change, and abuses of power – then that hope will quickly give way to despair,” he stressed.
  
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, by Mr. Wu Hongbo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
  
The 2030 Agenda is a pact for present and future generations. It embodies a promise to truly set the world on a different, sustainable path, leaving no one behind. We have started this collective journey with strong political will for implementation at all levels.
  
The 2030 Agenda recognizes that eradicating extreme poverty is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. Although progress is undeniable in the fight against hunger, there are still over 800 million people worldwide who suffer from hunger.
  
Our efforts towards ending preventable deaths of women and children worldwide are notable. Between 2000 and 2015, the global maternal mortality ratio declined by 37 per cent and the mortality rate of children under 5 fell by 44 per cent. Yet still, an estimated 300,000 women died during childbirth and 5.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2015, mostly from preventable causes.
  
Universal primary education still has not been achieved. In 2013, 59 million children of primary-school age were out of school. The SDGs will challenge this even further as they address not only access, but also equity and quality of education.
  
More than 1 in 4 women aged 20 to 24 reported being married before their 18th birthday in 2015; a decrease from 1 in 3 women in 1990. And in 2016, women’s participation in parliament reached 23 per cent, an increase of six percentage points over a decade. Despite these advancements, gender equality remains a persistent challenge for countries worldwide.
  
The world has also continued to face persistent environmental challenges. Water stress affects more than 2 billion people worldwide. Despite gains in access to improved drinking water and sanitation, still 663 million used unimproved water and 2.4 billion lived without improved sanitation facilities in 2015.
  
The recent Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, marked a significant milestone to reduce the pace of climate change and to accelerate the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low-carbon future.
  
Today, many countries still face protracted armed conflict and violence, and far too many people struggle under weak institutions and lack of access to justice, information and other fundamental freedoms.
  
Millions of children worldwide are still denied registration at birth – the very first step in securing a person’s recognition before the law and safeguarding individual rights and access to justice.
  
Achieving the 2030 Agenda requires a revitalized and enhanced global partnership that brings all stakeholders and mobilizes all available resources.
  
Leaving no one behind is the central overarching principle of the 2030 Agenda. The first 2030 Agenda report demonstrates that the benefits of development are not equally shared by all. Severe income inequality is one of the biggest challenges.
  
We must act fast on the global goals, or risk leaving the poorest behind, writes Elizabeth Stuart from the Overseas Development Institute.
  
The High Level Political Forum takes place under the banner “ensuring that no one is left behind”. It is encouraging that UN member states have agreed that focusing on the poorest is the most immediate priority, and countries will report on how they are responding to this new agenda.
  
New research quantifies how urgent this is. Using current progress on key indicators, it shows just how much harder it will be to reach some of the most relevant goals and targets if action is delayed.
  
We conclude that if no action is taken in the first 1,000 days of the SDGs – in other words, in the first three years up to September 2018 – then governments risk leaving people behind and failing to achieve certain goals altogether.
  
In Africa, today, our analysis shows that countries will need to reduce preventable child deaths at a rate of more than 7% a year between now and 2030 to meet the SDG target. But if they wait until 2018 before taking action, that rate increases to more than 9%. Currently child mortality rates in the region are declining by only around 4% a year.
  
If they delay until 2027 – which really would be a worst-case scenario – they will have to reduce child mortality more than four times faster than they would if they start to take action today: clearly an impossible task.
  
We see a similar story for education. Our calculations show that African countries need to reduce the number of children attending school for less than four years at a rate of 10% each year between now and 2030 to eliminate education poverty. If action is delayed until 2018, the rate increases to 13% per year.
  
Finally, if sub-Saharan Africa is to eliminate ultra-poverty – people living on less than $1 a day, an estimate of the minimum survival level – it needs to reduce levels by 10% a year if action starts today, rising to 13% if this is left until 2018.
  
In fact, countries can do a lot in three years to help poor and marginalised people out of poverty and exclusion. For instance, from 2010 to 2012, Senegal’s rural electrification project increased access to electricity in 191 target villages more than five-fold, from 17,000 to 90,000.
  
There are examples of real progress from low income countries too. In 2007, Nepal’s interim constitution provided a legal basis to the rights of minorities and introduced quotas for members of lower castes and women. As a result, in the Constituent Assembly formed just one year later, one third of seats were held by women, including traditionally marginalised Terai Dalit women.
  
Meanwhile in Eritrea, a fragile state, there has been real success in getting previously excluded children into education. A programme launched by the government, in conjunction with Unicef, in 2007, has allowed the children of nomadic herders – a group traditionally excluded from formal teaching because of seasonal migration patterns – to attend primary school.
  
The programme has had remarkable success in a short space of time. Within two years, more than 5,000 children between the ages of nine and 14 were enrolled in 57 Complementary Elementary Education (CEE) learning centres across the country. Building on this success, there are now some 100 CEE centres in the country, and some 30,000 children have benefited from the programme. So the message is clear: early action is both necessary and possible.
  
July 2016
  
Keeping Their Promises: Governments pledged to tackle global inequality, now they must deliver, says Helen Dennis, Senior Adviser on Poverty & Inequality at Christian Aid.
  
As government ministers meet in New York this week for their first significant review of work towards the new Sustainable Development Goals, the road ahead can look daunting. Nevertheless, promises have been made and must be delivered, in a world that urgently needs progress.
  
One of those promises is to reduce inequality between and within countries. Another is to implement all 17 of the Goals “leaving no one behind”. Both will be an uphill struggle, because however you measure it, global inequality remains exceptionally high and by a number of measures getting worse.
  
The recently published World Wealth Report has estimated that the world’s millionaires are currently worth nearly $60 trillion, at a time when 800 million people still live on less than $1.90 a day.
  
When we see these kinds of figures, we can at least take heart that economically, the world is not bust. One person’s private jet is 1,000 people’s basic education, health services and safe water and sanitation.
  
It is also clear that that such excessive wealth and consumption do not happen ‘naturally’. They are facilitated by global systems and policy decisions on matters such as tax haven secrecy, tax competition and multi-billion subsidies for the fossil fuel industry.
  
Perhaps surprisingly, these themes are now included within the Sustainable Development Goals - some within the Inequality Goal (Goal 10) and others elsewhere in the framework. The transformational principle of ‘leaving no one behind’ was also agreed.
  
These were hard fought for in the negotiations, and it’s now critical that countries now get their reporting right, so they can be held accountable for doing what they agreed to do.
  
Christian Aid’s new briefing, Leave No One Behind & Global Equity: Reviewing Our Shared Commitments, calls on wealthier countries to report against the SDGs using a ‘global equity lens’.
  
What this means is that as well as producing an implementation plan to deliver on Goal 10, wealthier governments undertaking national reviews at the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) should ensure that they are making an appropriate and equitable contributions to all the global targets.
  
Take target 10.7 on migration. In 2016, more people have been forced to leave their homes than ever before –some 65 million. An equity lens applied to this issue would ask how the global response takes account of differing capacities to host people exercising their right to seek asylum. At present, the vast majority of all refugees in the world are hosted by low and middle-income countries such as Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey.
  
Or take target 16.4 on illicit financial flows. Developing countries lose staggering sums through practices like money laundering and trade mispricing.
  
Global Financial Integrity has put their total losses in 2013 at $1.1 billion. GFI has also estimated that around 45% of these outflows end up in offshore financial centres - and around 55% in developed countries. With most of this is facilitated by intermediaries (banks, lawyers, accountants) based in wealthier countries.
  
An appropriate and equitable response from countries such as the UK would be a clampdown on facilitators and increased transparency, including within the UK’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
  
The SDGs promised a universal and transformative agenda, a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. We need to see that same energy that was put into more than three years of negotiation of the Goals now going into implementation and accountability.
  
In the future the High-Level Political Forum must help governments operationalise their commitments to reduce global inequality.
  
July 2016
  
Poor scores for rich countries on promoting clean energy, fighting inequality and climate change, by Sebastien Malo. (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
  
Most of the world''s richest countries failed to earn top marks on their progress toward reaching the United Nations goals to end poverty and inequality.
  
The United States ranked 25th on the index of 149 countries, scoring poorly on promoting clean energy and fighting inequality and climate change, said the ranking by the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German social responsibility foundation.
  
U.N. member states agreed last September to 17 ambitious goals to tackle the world''s most troubling problems such as inequality, poverty and climate change.
  
The agenda is to be implemented over the next 15 years, with a big push globally to win public support.
  
The index measuring nations progress is intended to heighten the focus on the global goals, said Jeffrey Sachs, director of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
  
"We put this report out as a kind of spur," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Remember these goals? You signed up to them. Here''s where you are."
  
Scoring at the bottom of the list were the Central African Republic and Liberia, while Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Switzerland topped the list. Germany ranked sixth, and the United Kingdom ranked tenth, it said.
  
The United States ranked 25th, below the Slovak Republic, it said. Among other economic giants, China ranked 76th, Japan was 18th, France ranked 11th, India was 110th, Brazil was 52nd and Canada was in 13th place, it said.
  
When the agenda of global goals was passed, experts warned that some countries might be reluctant to address certain issues such as climate change and gender equality.
  
A study by Bertelsmann Stiftung last year predicted that the United States would be among nations least likely to meet goals to end poverty and combat climate change. Holding the United States back are such issues as its income gap, consumption behavior and environmental protection, it said.
  
The index will be updated annually for the next three years, said a spokesman for the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network. http://sdgindex.org/download/
  
What does it really mean to Leave No One Behind? (IPS, Social Watch, Council of Canadians, agencies)
  
Although “leave no one behind” has become a central rallying cry around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, more needs to be done for it to be put into practice, civil society advocates said during a review conference of progress made on the Post-2030 agenda.
  
Unlike the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which failed to address structural inequality, ecological sustainability, and the responsibilities of the global North, the 2030 Agenda acknowledges the “enormous disparities of opportunity, wealth, and power,” as immense challenges to sustainable development – a first for an intergovernmental document.
  
Yet despite these changes, the first year of the fifteen year 2030 Agenda has yet to see a change in the trajectory of global development, according to the Spotlight Report on Sustainable Development 2016 published this week.
  
“Communities are not forgetfully left behind,” said Warda Rina of the Women’s Major Group, which is one of the groups at the UN reviewing progress made on the 2030 Agenda, “it is the neoliberal policies which systematically exclude them.”
  
The state of the Sustainable Development Goals in many countries can be described by growing prosperity of the higher classes, but worsening multidimensional poverty, quality of life, and public safety for the rest, says the report.
  
“With reference to the 2030 Agenda, there is progress and setbacks,” writes Hector Bejar on behalf of Social Watch coalition in Peru which said in the report that ‘GDP grew, but inequality grew as well.”
  
Barbara Adams also of Social Watch, said that so far the implementation of the SDGs has made it seem like some member states agreed to the agenda reluctantly, and in negotiations there is a lot of push-back and backtracking by them.
  
“Financing conversations seem to be going back to business as usual. If some of what’s on the table goes through, it will create direct obstacles to achieving the SDGs.”
  
A major obstacle which the 2030 Agenda does not address is the new generation of bilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements which reduce the ability of governments to promote human rights and sustainability, and encourage countries to compete in the race to the bottom, offering lower taxes and cheaper labour to attract investments, says the report.
  
For example, The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) signed in February is awaiting ratification, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and US to be finalized by the end of the year.
  
“These agreements regard social, environmental, and human rights standards as potential non-tarrif barriers to trade and investment, which have to be ‘harmonized’ or removed,” says the report.
  
Sandra Vermuyten, from Public Services International said that a number of the UN panels are being unduly influenced by corporate interests and are not inclusive.
  
For instance, the coordinator of the Global Business Alliance for the 2030 Agenda is the The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). They have been advocating for the same destabalizing policies of the past which exaserbated inequalities in both the global North and South, according to the report.
  
Chee Yoke Ling (Third World Network) said that the SDGs are not going to be accomplished through only public-private partnerships or multi-stakeholder approaches.
  
“Laws of countries, from the U.S. To European countries are giving more rights to corporations than to human beings,” said Ling.
  
“It took us 44 years to admit that poverty is still there, and that inequality is a major problem. But now, corporate power is so much more concentrated.”
  
Another example of the 2030 Agenda’s contradictions is the way the water crisis is being framed, rather than the root causes being addressed, says Meera K Arunananthan, from the Council of Canadians.
  
“The global water crisis is not an inevitable result of a rapidly growing population. It is a result of a thirsty, greedy, economic model.” said Arunananthan. This includes the basic need of water and sanitation services being privatized, which the World Bank has been promoting in the SDGs with structural adgustment programs, she says.
  
The report published by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), found the total cost of leaving no one behind in health, education and social protection across the 75 countries for which they have data is an annual average of $739 billion.
  
‘The 30 low-income countries (LICs) will require an additional $70 billion each year to meet these costs. In the case of the 45 middle-income countries (MICs), governments are generating enough public revenues to meet these costs: the challenge is their allocation,” says the report.
  
In the era of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some countries did not start implementation in earnest until 10 years after the goals were adopted. Delayed action on global warming has compounded the policy challenge. If no action is taken in the first 1,000 days of the SDGs – in other words, in the first three years up to September 2018 – then governments risk leaving people behind and failing to achieve certain goals altogether, says the report.
  
“The world simply cannot afford delays that threaten the chances of achieving the SDGs.” says the ODI report.
  
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Break down barriers to end world hunger by 2030 (SUN Movement, WFP, FAO)
  
At the World Humanitarian Summit, leaders from governments, United Nations, intergovernmental, regional and non-governmental organizations confirmed that achieving Zero Hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030 is possible.
  
However, they emphasized that it requires urgent action, leadership and new ways of thinking and working together to break down the barriers between humanitarian and development approaches. It also requires longer term financing and partnerships, and above all, societies which ultimately decides not to leave anyone behind.
  
Michael D Higgins, President of Ireland, addressed an event on Zero Hunger noting that “today, we have the opportunity to state with clarity and certainty that the source of global hunger is not a lack of food. Rather, it is the persistence of poverty and inequality in our societies. Unequal rights, opportunities and protection deepen the global problem of hunger amongst millions, with all its consequences for women, men and above all children”.
  
Access to food, water and health services that form the basis of healthy and diverse diets and lives is intricately linked to both rights – particularly equity and women’s rights – and resilience to future shocks.
  
In his report for the World Humanitarian Summit, the United Nations Secretary-General argues that immediate, life-saving assistance must be part of long term efforts to reduce needs and vulnerability and develop resilient women and men, households and communities. Women are critical for strong communities as caretakers and home providers, as food producers and decision makers, and ensuring the wellbeing of the whole family.
  
Long term efforts also mean a shift in focus to local and national institutions wherever possible, and recognition that national social welfare and safety nets, health systems, and local community organizations can all play an important role in preventing and preparing for disasters and in responding to crises.
  
The Director-General of FAO, Mr. Jose Graziano da Silva, emphasised that “ending poverty, hunger and malnutrition must become the basis of a new social contract in which no one is left behind. We have a second chance. This is what the SDGs are all about and it is key to resolving the world humanitarian crisis".
  
Ertharin Cousin, World Food Programme’s Executive Director, advocated for "moving forward from persistent food crisis demands, reducing and transferring risk, strengthening people’s own capacities for resilience and truly uniting humanitarian and development actions that people on the front line of climate-change, hunger and poverty require and deserve”.
  
“Building resilience to disasters does work and saves communities from suffering.
  
However, there has to be a global commitment to invest in preparedness and long-term development,” said Josefina Stubbs, Associate Vice-President, International Fund for Agricultural Development.
  
“If we want to reach zero hunger, we need to go beyond the simple response of food,” said Action Against Hunger CEO Andrea Tamburini. “We must work together, and embrace a holistic approach of nutrition security – including all elements that lead to a healthy and well-nourished life – water, health care, education, strong livelihoods and strong communities. If we focus on food and provision and production of food only, we will not be able to reach our target by 2030. Full, and holistic commitment will be necessary”.
  
Amira Gornass, the Chair of the Committee on Food Security said “a global policy shift is needed if we truly want to achieve Zero Hunger. The Committee on World Food Security’s Framework for Action on Food Security and Nutrition in Protracted Crises, endorsed globally in 2014, says how we can achieve this shift. I commend FAO and WFP for upholding this framework in their commitments at this Summit and I urge all countries and UN agencies to do the same”.
  
The Irish President said that "ensuring that we ‘leave no-one behind’ requires us to acknowledge and systematically address hunger and inequality for what they are: an injustice, a breach of rights.
  
In Ireland, our own history of famine and emigration has defined us as a people. Consciousness now compels us that we should, as an independent state, recognise our common interest in tackling the persistence of famine and displacement in our world today”.
  
* According to the World Health Organization, 800 million people are chronically undernourished, 159 million children under 5 years of age are stunted, around 50 million children under 5 are wasted, more than 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies.
  
In September 2015, countries adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 is to "End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture". The SDGs aim to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030, making sure all people – especially children and the most vulnerable – have access to sufficient, healthy and nutritious food all year round. As a maker and marker of development, nutrition is central to the achievement of the SDGs.
  
In April 2016, UN Member States agreed to intensify action to end hunger and eradicate malnutrition, and ensure universal access to healthier and more sustainable diets by proclaiming a UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025).
  
By agreeing on resolution (A/RES/70/259), governments endorsed the Rome Declaration on Nutrition and Framework for Action adopted by the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) in November 2014.
  
The UN resolution calls upon FAO and WHO to lead the implementation of the Decade of Action on Nutrition, in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and involving coordination mechanisms such as the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) and multi-stakeholder platforms such as the Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
  
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* International Food Policy Research Institute - Global Nutrition Report 2016, external link: http://bit.ly/1tt8rqW

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