Dr. Jaakko Kuosmanen
Research Fellow and Programme coordinator of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations|Dr. Jaakko Kuosmanen
Research Fellow and Programme coordinator of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations
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Taking the backseat? Strategic utilisation of human rights in the implementation of SDGs
Human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are closely entwined. The text of the Agenda declares that human rights constitute the foundation and the aim of development. It states that the Agenda is grounded in the ...
Sustainable Development Goals: A Beacon of Light or Another Stumble in Global Governance?
The United Nation's new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted yesterday by the world’s leaders in a highly anticipated Summit in New York. At the end of the year, the SDGs will replace the Millennium Development Goals ...
Taking the Needs of Future Generations into Account: the Case of Wales
The issue of long-term governance is gaining attraction around the world. Many governments are looking into mechanisms that could be helpful in integrating the needs of future generations better into the existing political processes. ...
Civil Society Wants its Voice Heard in Post-2015 Development
During the last week of August the UN headquarters in New York was effectively taken over by civil society. Over 4000 participants from non-governmental organisations around the world gathered for a three-day conference aiming to ...
A New Frontier? Human Rights and Public Finance
The link between human rights and states’ resource policies is currently a hot topic politically as well as academically. In the aftermath of the recent global economic and financial crises the implementation of economic and social ...
Solidarity, fair sharing of responsibility, and refugee protection in the EU
Article 80 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) requires that asylum policies of the Union and their implementation be governed by the principle of solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility among the ...
