Human Rights in the OWG's Zero Draft: Maintaining Human Rights Momentum for a People-centred Post-2015 Agenda

Monday, June 16, 2014 - 20:00
PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Human Rights
Location: 
UN Library Auditorium

SAVE THE DATE

Maintaining Human Rights Momentum for a

OHCHR Side Event at OWG-12

Human Rights in the OWG's Zero Draft:

People-centred Post-2015 Agenda

Member states have recognised the importance of human rights in development in the 2000 Millennium

Declaration and all outcome documents of global summits and conferences thereafter. Since the

beginning of deliberations on the post-2015 agenda, people and civil society across the globe have

demanded that the new agenda be built on human rights. Human rights have been also featuring

prominently in UN discussions and the work of the inter-governmental Open Working Group (OWG) on

Maintaining this human rights momentum is critical for ensuring the post-2015 development agenda be

universal, people-centred, equitable and truly sustainable. The side event will therefore:

• review how well key dimensions of human rights are reflected in the zero draft of the OWG,

namely freedom from want (the rights to food, education, health, housing, water and sanitation,

adequate standard of living etc.), freedom from fear (political participation, personal security,

access to justice etc.), equality and non-discrimination (mainstreaming and as a stand-alone

goal) and commitments to a global partnership and the right to development

• address and make recommendations on key opportunities and challenges going forward, for

example, in relation to issues of measurability, national and international dimensions of human

rights, and global demand for human rights

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Tuesday 17 June 2014

13:15 - 14:30, Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, United Nations, New York

Mr. Craig Mokhiber, Chief, Development and Social and Economic Issues Branch, OHCHR

Ms. Bhumika Muchhala, Third World Network

Mr. Ignacio Saiz, Center for Economic and Social Rights

The event will be available for viewing the following day through the UN web TV website at: http://webtv.un.org

For further information please contact Mr. Nouhoum Sangaré, OHCHR at sangaren@un.org or +1-212-963-6136