Push no one behind

Diane Elson

CDP Background Papers from United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs

Abstract: One of the pillars of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the pledge to ‘leave no one behind’. This paper argues that we must recognise that many people throughout the world are not just being left behind. They are being pushed even further behind, and their levels of well-being are falling, often in ways from which it is impossible to fully recover. Indeed, many are confronted with forces that lead to their avoidable premature deaths. Thus, development policies should have as their first priority to ensure that no one is pushed behind. The paper argues that this could be secured through a different way of framing economic policy, that focuses on the obligations of states to respect, protect and fulfil economic, social and cultural rights. The paper also highlights the ways in which deprived people are using the human rights system to claim their rights.

Keywords: 2030 Agenda; poverty; inequality; deprivation; dispossession; human rights obligations; human rights claims (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 F63 I15 I31 K38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2018-06
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