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Notes on contributors
Inga Winkler is a Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University and the Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Human Rights Program.
Carmel Williams, PhD, is a Senior Research Officer, Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex.
Notes
1 UN General Assembly, Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (New York: UN, 2015).
2 High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, Report, A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development (New York: 2013); Post-2015 Human Rights Caucus, Human Rights for All Post-2015: A Litmus Test (New York: 2014).
3 See for example, William Easterly, ‘The SDGs Should Stand for Senseless, Dreamy, Garbled’, Foreign Policy, September 28, 2015, http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/28/the-sdgs-are-utopian-and-worthless-mdgs-development-rise-of-the-rest/ (accessed July 12, 2017).
4 Jan Vandemoortele, ‘Making Sense of the MDGs’, Development 51, no. 220–7 (2008): 221.
5 United Nations, Claiming the Millennium Development Goals: A Human Rights Approach (New York & Geneva: UN, 2008), 9.
6 United Nations Development Group, The Global Conversation Begins, Emerging Views for a New Development Agenda (New York: UNDG, 2013), http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/MDG/english/global-conversation-begins-web.pdf (accessed July 12, 2017).
7 United Nations, The Future We Want, A/Res/66/288, September 11, 2012.
8 Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/owg (accessed July 12, 2017).
9 Steven Jensen, Allison Corkery and Kate Donald, Realizing rights through the sustainable development goals: The role of national human rights institutions, Briefing paper about the Sustainable Development Goals and human rights – and the role of national human rights institutions (Danish Institute for Human Rights, 2015).
10 Joint Statement of the Chairpersons of the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, January 18, 2015, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15505&#sthash.y5QacpyZ.dpuf (accessed July 12, 2017).
11 Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council, If Rio+20 is to Deliver, Accountability Must Be at its Heart, http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/SP/BNSustainableDevelopment.pdf (accessed July 12, 2017).
12 Labour Party Manifesto 2107, For the Many, Not the Few May 2017, p. 122.
13 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 2017, http://thebulletin.org/timeline (accessed July 12, 2017).
14 Ibid.
15 United Nations, Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, A/42/427, August 4, 1987.
16 Gender & Development has published a special issue on the SDGs in March 2016: http://www.genderanddevelopment.org/page/current-issue (accessed July 12, 2017). The Health and Human Rights Journal has published an extensive series of blog posts on the SDGs that provide interesting insights: https://www.hhrjournal.org/2015/09/sdg-series-what-might-the-sdgs-mean-for-health-and-human-rights-an-introduction-to-the-series/ (accessed July 12, 2017).
17 United Nations, Statement by 17 Special Procedures Mandate-Holders of the Human Rights Council on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, Grounding Development Priorities in Human Rights: Incentives to Improve Equality, Social Security and Accountability, http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Food/Post2015JointSubmission.pdf (accessed July 12, 2017).
18 See also Katja Freistein and Bettina Mahlert, ‘The Potential for Tackling Inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals’, Third World Quarterly 37, no. 12 (2016): 2139–55; Edward Anderson, ‘Equality as a Global Goal’, Ethics and International Affairs, June 10, 2015.
19 For a more comprehensive exercise, offering a spotlight on each SDG, see Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Spotlight on Sustainable Development (2016).
20 For a critique of the final draft of the goals and targets prior to adoption see Thomas Pogge and Mitu Sengupta, ‘The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as Drafted: Nice Idea, Poor Execution’, Washington International Law Journal 24, no. 3 (2015): 571–87.
21 See further Malcolm Langford, ‘Lost in Transformation? The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals’, Ethics & International Affairs 30, no. 2 (2016): 167–76; for a more in-depth discussion, Graham Long, ‘The Idea of Universality in the Sustainable Development Goals’, Ethics & International Affairs 29, no. 2 (2015): 203–22.
22 Kate Donald and Sally-Anne Way, ‘Accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals: A Lost Opportunity?’, Ethics & International Affairs 30, no. 2 (2016): 201–13, 207 et seq.; Nadja Filskov, SDGs and Human Rights Monitoring, Guidance for National Implementation (Danish Institute for Human Rights, 2015); see also Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Snapshot: The SDGs at the Human Rights Council (March 2017), http://globalinitiative-escr.org/snapshot-the-sdgs-at-the-human-rights-council-march-2017 (accessed July 12, 2017).