"The real global economic fight is where value is added", noted Prof. Correa. He highlighted that exporting raw materials with minimal local processing prevents the creation of the jobs and health services necessary to realise the #RightToDevelopment. 🏥📈
This #HumanRightsDay, we reaffirm the #RightToFood and #RightToDevelopment. Dignity starts with access to food and opportunity. At a UN Human Rights (OHCHR) seminar, Emilie Chazelle stressed that states must cooperate to tackle global challenges. #HumanRights
Yuefen Li of South Centre participated in the 12th Session of #EMRtD on #trade tariffs & the #RighttoDevelopment.
Key messages: ➡️ Tariff hikes are "very regressive," disproportionately harming women, girls & LDCs.
At the #UN #EMRTD12 session, the South Centre highlighted the 40-year gap in implementing the #RightToDevelopment.
The #RtD is a fundamental human right, blocked by systemic barriers like an inequitable global economy & crushing debt, and it is the "normative bridge" to ...
As the 40th anniversary of the #RighttoDevelopment Declaration approaches, our message is clear: It's time to finalise the draft covenant and make the RtD a binding, enforceable reality.
#GlobalSouth #UN #HumanRights
Environment-related resolutions adopted at #HRC60 include:
🔹 #SeaLevelRise
🔹 Mandate renewal of SR #IndigenousPeoples
🔹 Rights to safe drinking #water & #sanitation
🔹 Rights of #IndigenousPeoples
🔹 #RightToDevelopment
🔹 & more
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It's time to treat maternal mortality as the injustice it is.
The #RightToDevelopment is central to ensuring women's health and rights.
Read our full statement: www.southcentre.int/sc-statement...
#MaternalHealth #GlobalHealth #EconomicJustice
As noted by #ICJ Judge Cleveland & the #IACourtHR, ISDS undermines the #JustTransition by locking in #FossilFuel dependence.
We urge the #UN #HumanRights Council to act: ISDS must not stand in the way of #ClimateJustice and human rights.
#RightToDevelopment
“Mandatory human rights due diligence alone is not enough.”
UN Special Rapporteur on #RightToDevelopment Surya Deva describes four corporate capture -- whether political, regulatory, economic or cultural -- can block progress and undermine states’ duty to protect #HumanRights.
Stay up-to-date with #environment-related reports, resolutions, events & activities, as #HRC60 tackles:
🔹 #Toxics + Access to Justice & Remedies
🔹 #Water-Energy nexus
🔹 #ClimateChange
🔹 Rights of #IndigenousPeoples
🔹 #RightToDevelopment
🔹 & more!
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📍Geneva | At today’s #Beijing30 & #RightToDevelopment side event, our Director of Program @drmariannaleite.bsky.social reminded us:
“Beijing is the bare minimum. Without binding rules, public financing, and human rights accountability, it risks becoming a ceiling—not a springboard.”
Right to development is the bridge between rights for people & communities l UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk
12 May 2025
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#righttodevelopment
#humanrights
Surya Deva, UN Special Rapporteur on the #RightToDevelopment, in highlighting reasons ISDS are problematic, shows that #ISDS are beyond repair, and the question is how we can create an alternative system, driven by equality, consistent justice delivery & participatory nature to settle such disputes.
South Centre inputs to #EMRTD study on #ClimateJustice & #RightToDevelopment makes a call for upholding #CBDRRC in ensuring a #JustTransition, protecting the human rights of the most affected populations & reforming #ISDS mechanisms that threaten climate action: www.southcentre.int/sc-inputs-to...
"The #RightToDevelopment provides a concrete basis to articulate States obligations."
UN SR development Surya Deva presents 5 key elements of State obligations arising from #R2D: intergenerational equity, intersectionality, international cooperation, CBDR, and participation.
2/ to the #righttoprivacy, to comparative and #regionalhumanrightslaw, to #freedomofreligion, to the #righttoeducation to #disabilityrights, to #gender, to #freedmofexpression, to the #righttodevelopment, to #foodsecurity, to human rights in #technology & the #digitalworld, to #childrights
