Joint submission to the HRC's 3rd intersessional meeting

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OHCHR

Building Back Better: Integrating Human Rights in Sustainable and Resilient Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic

14 January 2021 | 15:00 – 17:00 PM CET | Virtual session

Background In June 2020, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 43/191 on the promotion and protection of human rights and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.2 The resolution called for three half-day intersessional meetings for dialogue and cooperation on human rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to be held in 2021, 2022 and 2023. The first of the three half-day meetings will be held on 14 January 2021. This half-day meeting will build on the previous two intersessional meetings called for in resolution 37/243 , March 2018.

The theme for the third intersessional meeting is ‘Building back better: Integrating human rights in sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic’. In the context of this theme, the meeting will highlight SDG 10 on reduced inequalities and SDG 16 on peace, justice and strong institutions, and will emphasize the importance of mainstreaming gender in these and all SDG implementation. In keeping with resolution 43/19, the theme of this third intersessional meeting is informed by the theme for HLPF 20214 .

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Submission to the Human Rights Council 3rd Intersessional meeting

Joint submission made by the Indigenous Navigator Initiative and the International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs on ‘Building back better: Integrating human rights in sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic’.

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Joint submission made by the Indigenous Navigator and the International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs on ‘Building

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Notes:

https://undocs.org/A/HRC/RES/43/19
Agenda 2030 makes a commitment to promote “a world of universal respect for equality and nondiscrimination”, (para 8) to ‘leave no one behind’ and to ensure “targets are met for all peoples and segments of society”. It links to three closely related concepts: equity (fairness in distribution of benefits and opportunities), equality (substantive equality, of both opportunity and results, with full protection under law), and nondiscrimination (prohibition of distinctions that are based on impermissible grounds and that have the effect or purpose of impairing the enjoyment of rights).
https://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/RES/37/24
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2021

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