A WEBINAR was held Thursday ahead of the seventh Session of the African Regional Forum for Sustainable Development (ARFSD) gathering panelists and experts in human rights, sustainable development and finance who discussed how human rights and sustainable development frameworks can be used to ensure sustainable recovery from COVID-19 in Africa.
The session was chaired by Ms. Francesca Thornberry, Chief Adviser Human Rights and Development at the Danish Institute of Human Rights.
Ms. Hilda Oyella, a human rights officer at UN OHCHR, noted that it was critical that human rights be integrated in COVID-19 recovery plans as ‘this gives us an opportunity to make-up for the overdue commitment with human rights and the 2030 Agenda’.
Human rights instruments that can guide COVID-19 recovery include the international human rights law, regional level charters and national level constitutions and statutory laws. Sustainable development goals targets also have linkages to human rights as shown
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