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Human Rights and Development: The Rights of the Child
AFD is developing a series of factsheets entitled "Human Rights and Development". In addition to providing information and promoting human rights, the sheets are tools to help development actors integ...
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Human Rights and Development: The Rights of Youth
AFD is developing a series of factsheets entitled "Human Rights and Development". In addition to providing information and promoting human rights, the sheets are tools to help development actors integ...
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Conference : "Human Rights and Development"
On 10 December 2021, AFD Group organized an international conference on "Human Rights and Development" that brought together 500 actors from the development community in the North and in the South....
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Human rights and sustainable development
Following the first conference «Human rights and sustainable development» in 2021, AFD brought together a wide range of development stakeholders on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universa...
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The Rights of Nature
Since 2022, the right to a healthy environment has been recognised as a human right by the United Nations General Assembly. However, it is not embodied in a binding international treaty, unlike conven...
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The nexus between “Human rights” and the “rights of nature” Debates, tensions and complementarities
In recent decades, initiatives to recognize rights for nature have multiplied, giving rise to a global movement. There are numerous opportunities for synergies between this movement and human rights,...
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The human rights-based approach: A lever for transformation
92% of the SDG targets are rooted in the international corpus of human rights. In this context, the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs' human rights strategy calls for "support for human ri...
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Human Rights as a Prism for Analysing the Ecological Transition
The fight against the ecological crisis and the protection of human rights are interdependent challenges that require collective efforts from governments, international organizations, civil society, b...
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What do civil society actors think about the human rightsbased approach ?
On the eve of the international conference Human rights and sustainable development, which took place at AFD on 8 December 2023, many representatives of civil society organizations from all continents...
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