Linking the UPR and the SDG processes
States have noted the potential mutual benefits of creating stronger links between human rights mechanisms, particularly the UPR, and the SDG process, with a view to achieving both greater and more effective implementation of human rights obligations and commitments on the ground and increased accountability for delivering on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. In so doing States are acknowledging that many SDG Targets and Indicators have a strong alignment with and foundation in their preexisting human rights obligations.
In support of this, Amnesty International has attempted below to identify relevant links between the recommendations we suggest be made to States undergoing their UPR during the 30th session in May and the Sustainable Development Goals and the related targets and indicators.
In highlighting these links we have referred to Annex IV to the Report of the InterAgency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, E/CN.3/2016/2/Rev.1.