On the 7th of April the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has published the final comment on the social, economic and cultural rights that the committee has the mandate to monitor (here, see ‘recent events and development’: https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cescr/pages/cescrindex.aspx ). With a group of colleagues from US- and UK-based universities among others we have established an independent association called Science for D…
WEBINAR: From Human Development to Sustainable Human Development
…a significant change in HDR thinking. Environmental issues are no longer seen as an “add on” to human development but as essentially interconnected with it. The Report doubles down on the belief that people’s agency and empowerment can bring about the action we need if we are to live in balance with the planet in a fairer world. It shows that we are at an unprecedented moment in history, in which human activity has become a dominant force shaping…