The SDG Temple of Justice is an outline of a business- friendly and human-rights-based blueprint designed to help advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDG Temple of Justice is further intended to be used as an SDG Acceleration Tool that mainstreams human rights-based and market-oriented approaches to development in the work of national SDG policy makers and implementers by means of promoting legal empowerment of people including the poor and disadvantaged groups. In addition to this, it helps address “the greatest global challenge of eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions including extreme poverty” with the aim to “leave no one behind” as stated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by promoting the legal empowerment of people through the eightfold rights depicted by the so called “pillars of the Temple of Justice”. The infographic of the SDG Temple of Justice visualizes how the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development can be advanced by leveraging the human rights foundation of the SDGs through the legal empowerment of people including the poor and disadvantaged groups.
As key features, the SDG Temple of Justice:
- Adopts a human rights-based approach to help advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This is done by promoting legal empowerment of people including the poor and disadvantaged groups through the eightfold rights namely: Gender Equality, Property Rights, Contract Rights, Business Rights, Labor Rights, the Right to an Effective Remedy, the Right to Information, and the Right to Development.
- The Benefit: As a human rights-based development strategy, legal empowerment of people including the poor has the potential to help address the “greatest global challenge of eradicating poverty” which is the unifying thread throughout the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets.
- Incorporates a human rights guide to the Sustainable Development Goals that shows the high degree of convergence between the human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals and their targets.
- The Benefit: The guide helps using international, national and regional human rights monitoring and reporting mechanisms to undertake the “follow up and review” of SDG implementation. Preparing reports on sustainable development, e.g. Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs), based on existing human rights reporting procedures as recommended by the 2030 Agenda provides a constructive and resource- efficient advantage for States.
- Connects with the United Nations Treaty Collection’s current status of international human rights treaties and ILO regulations that are directly related to the Sustainable Development Goals.
- The Benefit: Being state parties to all relevant international and regional human rights treaties contributes to the successful achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
Find the links to install the SDG Temple of Justice mobile app below:
Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wTheSDGTempleofJustice_7911162
For non-Android Devices: http://apps.monk.ee/details.php?appid=105559502