Sustainable Development Rights? : Human rights language in development discourse
(2016) MRSG31 20152Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- This paper deals with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals of 2015. I examine the role of human rights language in the Sustainable Development Agenda in order to uncover the relation between sustainable development discourse and human rights discourse. Consid-ering discourse a practice I question the position of human rights internationally. I argue that human rights language is absent in the Agenda due to the reluctance of Member States to commit to legally binding obligations. Furthermore, I argue that human rights language is a moral practice itself, which frames, represents and changes the social practice of human rights as a whole. The usefulness and effectiveness of the human rights language varies with the context due... (More)
- This paper deals with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals of 2015. I examine the role of human rights language in the Sustainable Development Agenda in order to uncover the relation between sustainable development discourse and human rights discourse. Consid-ering discourse a practice I question the position of human rights internationally. I argue that human rights language is absent in the Agenda due to the reluctance of Member States to commit to legally binding obligations. Furthermore, I argue that human rights language is a moral practice itself, which frames, represents and changes the social practice of human rights as a whole. The usefulness and effectiveness of the human rights language varies with the context due to its highly politicized character and the limitations incorporated in the language and doctrine. I conclude that the Agenda and Goals could have benefitted from the use of hu-man rights language in terms of legitimizing and distributing responsibility. (Less)
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- author
- Brok, Johanne Oline Storgaard LU
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- organization
- course
- MRSG31 20152
- year
- 2016
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- Mänskliga rättigheter, Sustainable Development Goals, human rights, human rights language, United Nations, international politics, post-2015 agenda
- language
- English
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- 8515999
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- 2016-02-16 11:41:14
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