Description
Book SynopsisFrom 2000 to 2015 the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mobilized external aid to finance life-changing services in the global South. However, in doing so, the organization failed to meet the challenges often associated with human rights initiatives, which are to make underprivileged communities independently prosperous, equitable, and sustainable.
In Global Development and Human Rights, Paul Nelson assesses the current thirty-year effort to make transformative changes in the global South by exploring how this disconnect from human rights weakened the MDGs reputation as a successful aid organization. To overcome the failings of the MDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were formed in 2016 with the intention of managing the issues fundamentally ignored by the MDGs.
Drawing on twenty-five years of research on development goals, human rights, and the organizations that promote them, Nelson reasons that transformative change arises out of national and loc
Table of Contents
Contents Figures Tables Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Human Rights and Sustainable Development Goals 2. Principles and Practice, Human Rights and Development 3. Challenging Inequalities 4. Health Systems 5. Access to Productive Assets: Labor 6. Access to Productive Assets: Land 7. Politics and Accountability: Implementing the SDGs Conclusions References Index
