Global Development and Human Rights: The Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond (UTP Insights) - Softcover

Nelson, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1487521251 ISBN 13: 9781487521257

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2021

Synopsis

From 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 local movements, and shows how human rights can offer leverage and political support that help drive transformative national initiatives.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Nelson is an associate professor of International Development at the University of Pittsburgh.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487521251
• ISBN 13: 9781487521257
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256