Regional Consultation for Asia - Bangkok

Background

This two-day consultation, held in Bangkok on 12 and 13 December 2018, brought together experts and practitioners, representatives of Member States, United Nations agencies, intergovernmental organisations, regional economic commissions, the private sector, civil society, — including non-governmental organisations — community leaders, and independent experts. For a fully participatory and inclusive approach, due consideration was also given to specific groups.

This was part of the Special Rapporteur’s series of regional consultations to identify and promote good practices in the practical implementation of the right to development worldwide.

Summary

• Concept note
• List of participants
• Outcome document

Background documentation

• 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development
• The Normative Framework of the Right to Development-William Felice
• Operationalizing the Right to development for realizing  sustainable development: Eliminating Poverty, Hunger, and Inequality-Robert Huish
• The Right to Development and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development-Mihir Kanade 
• Gender Equality, the Right to Development, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development-Flavia Piovesan* and Melina Girardi Fachin
• Addressing inequalities and discrimination in the SDGs-OHCHR
• The Right to Development and International Cooperation-OHCHR
• Key Messages on Human Rights and Financing for Development
• The SDG and Corresponding Human Right
• Climate Change, the Right to Development and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Presentations and submissions

• APWLD submission-Promoting and Fulfilling the Right to Development-Case Studies-Asia
• FWRM-KAUSHAL SHARMA
• Manushya Foundation
• Poverty Reduction- Xigen WANG
• Preliminary Contribution of the State of QATAR
• Rural Support Programmes - SHOAYAB KHAN
• The Right to Development and Climate Change-DASGUPTA