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<p><font face="Amnesty Trade Gothic" size="4"><b>JOINT PRESS RELEASE</b></font><font size="3">
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</b></font><font face="Amnesty Trade Gothic" size="4"><b>New global development
agenda must have human rights at its core</b></font><font size="3"> <br>
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World leaders must reject an aid-based model of development and instead
pursue an approach that puts human rights and justice at its core, </font><a href="http://www.worldwewant2015.org/es/node/346687" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Amnesty Trade Gothic"><u>18
non-governmental organizations urged</u></font></a><font face="Amnesty Trade Gothic">
ahead of a High-Level Panel report to the UN on the future of sustainable
development.<br>
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The call from Amnesty International, the Center for Economic and Social
Rights (CESR), the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID),
and 15 other organizations worldwide comes as a </font><a href="http://www.un.org/sg/management/hlppost2015.shtml" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Amnesty Trade Gothic"><u>high-level
panel of experts</u></font></a><font face="Amnesty Trade Gothic">
reviews the final draft of a report it will submit to the UN Secretary
General at the end of May, laying the groundwork for action once the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015. <br>
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Any new model must ensure that people are empowered and enabled to hold
their governments and other entities to account for their conduct when
human rights are ignored or abused, the organizations said. </font><font size="3"><br>
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“The post-2015 framework must recognize that people who face poverty and
deprivation are subjects of rights, not objects of development. And it
must address the structural obstacles that keep people poor, at the national
and global levels,” said Ignacio Saiz, Executive Director of the Center
for Economic and Social Rights.</font><font size="3"><br>
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Based on the high-level panel’s findings, the UN Secretary General will
make recommendations to a General Assembly Special Event on the MDGs, which
will hammer out the basic parameters of the post-2015 plan in September
2013. </font><font size="3"><br>
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The post-2015 development agenda must at the very least respect and reflect
pre-existing human rights legal norms, standards and political commitments,
the organizations said. <br>
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They urged governments to ensure that minimum levels of social protection
are met. </font><font size="3"><br>
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While the development agenda will be primarily implemented by states, effective
citizen-led accountability mechanisms will be needed to ensure that others
– including international institutions and the private sector – adhere
to human rights standards. At the very least this must ensure that the
private sector does no harm when implementing development projects. <br>
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Better collaboration between effective institutions at the state and international
levels should form the basis of a global partnership to tackle the structural
causes of poverty, inequality and ecological devastation. <br>
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Recent popular uprisings around the world have shown that it is essential
that governments acknowledge that both major categories of human rights
– civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural
rights – are indivisible and interdependent, the organizations said. <br>
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“The post-2015 development framework must be rooted in an understanding
of the interdependence of socio-economic deprivation and democratic failures,”
said Savio Carvalho Director of Amnesty International's Demand Dignity
Programme. <br>
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“Civil and political rights are inseparable from economic and social rights,
so the new agenda must be designed to promote empowerment in both these
arenas.”<br>
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>From healthcare to land and property rights to gender-based violence, women
and girls face specific challenges that need to be addressed in the post-2015
development agenda.</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="Amnesty Trade Gothic"><br>
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“The post-2015 development framework must effectively guarantee the full
spectrum of women’s rights by tackling the structural economic issues
and property rights, ensuring the full participation of women in decision-making
at all levels, and recognizing the unpaid care economy,” said Lydia Alpízar,
Executive Director of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development.</font><font size="3">
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The MDGs have been weak in addressing other forms of inequality. This time
around, existing human rights standards to eliminate discrimination must
be reflected in any new goals and targets. Groups who are currently disadvantaged
or excluded – on grounds such as race, gender, disability, migrant or
indigenous status, sexual orientation or gender identity – must be enabled
to act as effective agents of their own development. </font><font size="3"><br>
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</font><font face="Amnesty Trade Gothic"><b>Read the full 3-page statement, with the list of endorsements, here:</b></font><font size="3">
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</u></font><a href="http://www.worldwewant2015.org/es/node/346687" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Amnesty Trade Gothic"><u>http://www.worldwewant2015.org/es/node/346687</u></font></a><font face="Amnesty Trade Gothic">
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For further information or to arrange interviews, please contact:</b></font><font size="3">
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Luke Holland, Communications Coordinator, CESR.</font><font size="3"> </font><font color="blue" size="3"><u><br>
</u></font><a href="mailto:lholland@cesr.org" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Amnesty Trade Gothic"><u>lholland@cesr.org</u></font></a><font face="Amnesty Trade Gothic">,
+1 718 237 9145</font><font size="3"> <br>
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Amnesty International's press office in London, UK:</font><font color="blue" size="3"><u><br>
</u></font><a href="mailto:press@amnesty.org" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Amnesty Trade Gothic"><u>press@amnesty.org</u></font></a><font face="Amnesty Trade Gothic">,
+44 20 7413 5566 </font><font size="3"><br>
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Mayra Moro-coco, Association for Women’s Rights in Development:</font><font size="3">
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</u></font><a href="mailto:mmoro-coco@awid.org" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Amnesty Trade Gothic"><u>mmoro-coco@awid.org</u></font></a><font face="Amnesty Trade Gothic">
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