ACTION ALERT: Let Ban Ki-moon know you want human rights in the SDGs
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Posted on July 8, 2014 Tagged with: Right to Water, SDGs, UN
The Mining Working Group at the UN and the Blue Planet Project have spearheaded a recent sign-on letter on the need for the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals to include an explicit mention of the need to guarantee the human right to water and sanitation. The letter has garnered more than 300 sign-ons – we thank you for your support and for your advocacy efforts to join this important fight.
Let Ban Ki-moon know you want human rights in the SDGs
H.E. Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
C.C.: H.E. John W. Ashe, President of the 68th Session of the General Assembly;
ASG Amina J. Mohammed, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Post-2015 Development Planning;
Mr. Macharia Kamau, Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kenya to the United Nations, Co-Chair of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals;
Mr. Csaba Kőrösi, Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations, Co-Chair of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals; Ms. Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
7 July 2014
Dear Mr. Secretary-General,
At this pivotal moment preceding the 13th and final session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, we are compelled to write to respectfully inform you of our serious concern regarding the lack of explicit reference to the international human rights framework in the current text for negotiation.
We are particularly dismayed that the 30 June iteration of the OWG Zero Draft includes no mention of the human right to water and sanitation. This is worrisome given the global importance and the hard-fought UN recognition and elaboration of this right. We call for the immediate inclusion of a target under proposed goal 6 that explicitly mentions the need to guarantee the human right to water and sanitation. This echoes the previous letter by more than 300 global civil society organizations for the urgent need to protect and promote the human right to water and sanitation in the SDGs. This letter remains active on the World We Want 2015 website and can be accessed here: http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/444003
This call is in line with the consistent and united advocacy of civil society, throughout the OWG process and the broader post-2015 discussion, for a sustainable development agenda anchored in human rights norms and the international framework. In recent OWG meetings, some States including the co-chairs have been promoting the idea of “mainstreaming” human rights into the SDGs. As it currently stands, the chapeau pledges that the agenda will simply “be guided” by human rights principles – a weak commitment when what is required is an agenda that is rooted in human rights obligations. The current targets and indicators do not fully reflect the standards of human rights and are not explicitly linked to existing obligations.
The OWG approach to mainstreaming human rights has amounted to making them invisible. The call for human rights to be central to the new agenda cannot be satisfied by language that is left open to interpretation. In addition to the various Major Group interventions to this effect, this plea has been made to the Open Working Group by so many people and groups around the world in the global consultations. For human rights to truly be integrated throughout the agenda, the relevant norms and tie to the human rights framework must be explicitly acknowledged in name and structure. This is a key step to strengthen coherence, deliver results, and ensure impact at the national level – key priorities of UN efforts to mainstream human rights in all areas.
We encourage you, Excellency, in your role as leader of this international body founded on the promotion and defense of human rights, to insist on a human rights-based approach in the SDG process. In particular, we implore you to encourage that the Open Working Group report includes an explicit mention reference to the need to guarantee the human right to water and sanitation.
Please accept, Excellency, the assurance of our highest consideration.
Signed
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LETTER TO THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL!
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Dear All,
As you are aware, the Mining Working Group at the UN and the Blue Planet Project have spearheaded the recent sign-on letter
regarding the need for the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals to include an explicit mention of the human right to water and sanitation. The letter has garnered more than 300 sign-ons – we thank you for your support and for your advocacy efforts to join this important fight.Despite our call, the latest “zero draft” of the SDGs text (30 June, 2014) has failed to include explicit mention of the human right to water and sanitation. Time is running out to influence the Open Working Group, as its 13th and last official session will be held July 14-18, with informals preceding it starting July 9. It is therefore essential that we unite in one last push to include the human rights language in the OWG report, particularly around the human right to water and sanitation.
As a final step, we encourage you and your organizations to write to the office of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, through the online petition available
[English] [Spanish]. In this pivotal moment, we must show the UN that we have not given up on human rights in the SDGs, and that they must ensure the inclusion of this language to ensure that the SDGS, and the post-2015 agenda, truly deliver for people’s human rights and the sanctity of our planet.Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
The Mining Working Group and the Blue Planet Project
ALERTA DE ACCIÓN – CARTA AL SECRETARIO GENERAL DE LA ONU!
Estimadas y estimados,
Como ustedes saben, el Grupo de Trabajo sobre Minería en la ONU y el Proyecto Planeta Azul han encabezado la reciente carta, y pidieron firmas, sobre la necesidad de que el Grupo de Trabajo Abierto (GTA) sobre los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) para que se incluya una mención explícita de la necesidad de garantizar el derecho humano al agua y al saneamiento. La carta ha recibido más de 300 firmas complementarias – le damos gracias por su apoyo y por sus actividades de promoción al unirse a esta importante lucha.
A pesar de nuestro esfuerzo, el último “borrador cero” del texto ODS (30 de junio de 2014) no ha logrado incluir una mención explícita del derecho humano al agua y saneamiento. El tiempo se agota para influir en el Grupo de Trabajo Abierto (GTA), como la 13ª y última sesión oficial se llevará a cabo del 14 al 18 de julio con los informales precedentes a partir del 9 de julio.Por tanto, es esencial que nos unamos en un último esfuerzo para la inclusión de lenguaje específico sobre los derechos humanos en el informe GTA, especialmente en torno al derecho humano al agua y al saneamiento.
Como paso final, le animamos a usted y a sus organizaciones a escribir a la oficina del Secretario General de la ONU Ban Ki-moon, a través de la petición en línea disponible [aquí]. En este momento crucial, debemos mostrar a la ONU que no hemos renunciado a los derechos humanos en los ODS, y que deben garantizar la inclusión de este lenguaje para asegurar que los ODS, y el programa posterior al 2015, realmente entregan los derechos humanos y la santidad de nuestro planeta a la gente.
Muchas gracias por su apoyo.
Sinceramente,
El Grupo de Trabajo sobre Minería y el Proyecto Planeta Azul
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Iterei Iguassu