As the launch of the post-2015 development agenda approaches, a group of United Nations human rights experts* call on UN member States to ensure that the new global goals are firmly grounded in international human rights norms and standards, including the principle of participation, and that they acknowledge the importance of a free and vibrant civil society for effective implementation. In the midst of the global debate on the next set of development goals, targets and indicators, the experts emphasized that civil society plays an undeniably central role in the…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 18 May 2015. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
