Importance of the right to development

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
57th session
(9 September 2024 – 11 October 2024)

CETIM reiterates its support to the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development.

Indeed, this right concerns Southern and Northern countries where the situation is troublesome. We are witnessing the dislocation of social cohesion, the increase of unemployement, racism, insecurity and precariousness, militarization, etc.

Northern countries often pit the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) against the Right to Development. And yet, even the UN General Secretary recognize that the SDGs are doomed to failure. As a reminder, SDGs do not challenge neoliberal policies at the origin of maldevelopment and inequalities. Moreover, their realization are mainly entrusted to transnational corporations.

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