Damon will speak in English, but you are free to take part in Swedish!

In this session we'll take some time to recap on human rights from what we did in GS1111, and link human rights to sustainability.

Before the class, try to find the time to read the below material (e.g. during the day before the lecture).

Have a think about this:

- How do human rights relate to social, environmental and economic sustainability?

(This is not a test! Just reflect on this a bit)

SLIDES

Reading

Marks (2016) - a really helpful and brief primer on human rights. Covers basic standards, some philosophical questions, and various ways to ensure rights are enforced (you don't need to pay too much attention to the various UN mechanisms he discusses towards the end) https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/134/2016/07/Human-Rights-A-brief-intro-2016.pdf

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 'Looking back at History: Building the Post-2015 Agenda on the Foundation of Human Rights', Speech delivered at Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, 6th Session, 13 December 2013 https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/MDGs/SpeechASGforHC_13Dec2013.pdfLinks to an external site. A short, but very good speech looking at how human rights relate to Agenda 2030

In class we'll have a discussion where the Universal Declaration might be useful. It's at the bottom of the Marks paper. Here it is in Swedish too https://fn.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Allmanforklaringomdemanskligarattigheterna.pdfLinks to an external site.

Additional (both might be helpful for your final paper)

Danish Institute for Human Rights, Human rights guide to the SDGs. https://sdg.humanrights.dk/Links to an external site. The DIHR has done a great job here of linking human rights to specific SDG goals and targets. It might be a much more useful way for you to explore human rights norms than simply skimming (yes, boring) treaties or declarations!

Kaltenborn Markus, Krajewski Markus, Heike Kuhn (2020) Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights Springer Open. This is an entire open access book on the SDGs and human rights. It's full of interesting stuff. Perhaps skim it to see if there is something you want to read more into https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-30469-0.pdf?pdf=button