Resources on MDGs and Human Rights

Development

Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance and the Environment; Written submission of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Common Country Assessment and UN Development Assistance Framework; Guidelines for UN Country Teams preparing a CCA and UNDAF

A good example of a CCA prepared with a human rights approach; Serbia and Montenegro CCA, 2003

Good Practices from the 2005 UNDAFS: Three examples of UNDAFS that reflect human rights-based approach

Accountability for Gender Equality amongst UN Country Teams for Endorsement by UNDG Principals on 12 July 2006; Summary note

Report of the High Commissioner to ECOSOC (2005)

Millennium Declaration

Millennium Development Goals

UN Millennium Project Report

Roundtable dialogue on building state capacity to meet the MDGs: human rights, governance, institutions and human resources, Ms. Mehr Khan Williams Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, New York, 29 June 2005

Bringing human rights to bear on strategies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, Ms Mehr Khan Williams, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Dublin, Saturday, 11 June 2005

A Human Rights Perspective on the Millennium Development Goals, Philip Alston Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals

Women’s rights and the millennium development goals, Keynote address by the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, International Conference: Gender Mainstreaming and the MDGs, Islamabad, Pakistan, 28 March 2005

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/2005/51

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to the General Assembly, A/59/422

Expert report on MDGs and the Right to Development: Issues, Constraints and Challenges, by A. K. Shiva Kumar November 2004

UN Millennium Project

Millennium Campaign

UNDP: MDGs

Gender equality & the MDGs

UNDG: Achieving the MDGs

The World Bank Group: MDGs