Making the link between human rights and sustainable development

Use information from the international human rights monitoring system to develop a human rights-based approach to the SDGs

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Find your country

Type in the name of a country or region, and explore the links between human rights recommendations and the SDGs

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Rights-holder groups

Click on a group to explore recommendations that concern specific groups of rights-holders

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Sustainable Development Goals

Click on an SDG to explore relevant recommendations by the international human rights system

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Resources

The SDG – Human Rights Data Explorer is the result of an experimental data mining project. Read more about this project and the methodology below.

What is the SDG – Human Rights Data Explorer?

Read more about the scope and purpose of this interactive database, and how the results can be used to make sustainable development more efficient, coherent, and accountable.

Methodology

Read more about the creation and training of the classification algorithm, which has helped to identify links to the SDGs for more than 140,000 human rights recommendations and observations.

The Human Rights Guide to the SDGs

Are you interested to learn more about the links between international human rights instruments and the Sustainable Development Goals? Check out the Human Rights Guide to the SDGs, a multilingual database connecting specific provisions of more than 50 global and regional human rights instruments to the SDGs.

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