Regional Consultation for Western European and other States and Eastern European States

Background

This two-day consultation, held in Geneva on 11 and 12 June 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
• Agenda
• Speaker biographies
• Outcome document

Presentations

• Challenges to the Implementation of the SDGs and the Right to Development, Vincent Yu, Deputy Director, South Center
• Development Challenges to Development countries, Vincent Yu, Deputy Director, South Center
• Evaluating and monitoring of development policies, programmes and projects, Irena Zubcevic,  Chief, Intergovernmental
• European Union development policy and practice
• Policy and Research Branch, Intergovernmental Policy and Research Branch, Office of Intergovernmental Support and Coordination for Sustainable Development, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• Feminist analysis of social and solidarity economy practices: views from Latin America and India, Christine Verschuur, Graduate Institute – Geneva
• Human Rights and development: two sides of the same coin, Virginia Bras Gomes, Chair, Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
• Human Rights for Development – examples from the field, June 2018, Isabelle Tschan, Human Rights and Rule of Law Advisor, Governance and Peacebuilding Team at the UNDP Regional Hub in Istanbul
• Human rights impact assessment (HRIAs) and development: process and pitfalls, Susan Mathews, OHCHR
• Intervention made by Mr. Emin Aslanov, Second secretary of the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
• Introductory remarks - A Human Rights-Based Approach to Data to Help Leave No One by Nicolas Fasel, OHCHR
• LGBTI Rights in Georgia – Fighting for Justice and Equality, Mariami Kvaratskhelia, Equality Movement, Georgia
• No One Left Behind: An Equal Rights Approach to Sustainable Development, Jim Fitzgerald, Equal Rights Trust, United Kingdom
• Regional consultation on the practical implementation of the right to development: identifying and promoting good practices, European Union Statement
• Right to development in Serbia, components of the discrimination and access to economic and social rights, Milan Antonijevic, YUCOM Serbia