Human rights
This topic speaks about human rights, what it is, how human rights are related to us and how to protect them
Human rights and Millenium Development Goals
The Millenium Development Goals set in 2000 by the huge majority of the UN member states, represent a unique chance to improve the realisation of human rights around the world. Each of these goals, which should be reached until 2015 (and with various success will / will not be reached) refer to a variety of internationally acknowledged human rights instruments. The individual goals are more thoroughly elaborated in the module on development and other modules (e.g. poverty or environment).
Here in the table from UNDP sources. Find how these goals correspond to specific instruments.
UNDP
To find out more on how to achieve these goals see the module on development.
Questions to reflect on
- How do you think development is related to human rights? For more information check module on development.