The 2030 Agenda is grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights treaties (paragraph 10). This ‘human rights foundation’ of the SDGs justifies the adoption of a rights-based approach to implement the SDGs. As a human-rights-based development strategy, legal empowerment involves the process through which the poor become protected and are enabled to use the law to advance their rights and their interests. In this context, legal empow

The United Nations 2030 Agenda recognises social protection systems as a key enabler of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (United Nations, 2015). Several SDGs and targets refer to social protection as a vital condition for their successful implementation. Each SDG and target corresponds with either one or more provisions of international human rights treaties. In this context, this blog highlights the importance of harnessing the SDGs-human rights anchorage as a roadma