Topic 5
Section outline
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Theme 5: UN Millennium Declaration, Millennium Development Goals and Indicators
24-26 April, 2013
Learning objective(s):
Critically examine the MDGs and their linkages with human rights and development; understand and be aware of the ongoing efforts at the UN in terms of operationalizing the Right to Development including in its applicability to the MDGs.
Required Readings:
- Millennium Development Goals and Indicators, UN Millennium Declaration (2000).
- Claiming the Millennium Development Goals: A Human Rights Approach. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2006).
- Jan Vandemoortele, ‘The MDG Story: Intention Denied’, in: Development and Change, Vol 42 (1): 1-21 (2011).
Optional Readings:
- Information note: The right to development – Framework for achieving the MDGs, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2010)
- UN Millennium Declaration (2000)
- MDG Gap Task Force Report 2011
- The Right to Development and Practical Strategies for Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals, Particularly Goal 8: Preliminary Concept Note (ECOSOC 2005).
- Arjun Sengupta, Human Rights and Extreme poverty, Report of the Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty (ECOSOC 2006).
- Mary Robinson, “What Rights Can Add to Good Development Practice” in: Philip Alston and Mary Robinson (eds.), Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 25-41.
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