Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Vice-Chair of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP), participated in the Human Rights Council second intersessional meeting for dialogue and cooperation on Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Geneva on 3 December 2019. In a panel on human rights, accelerated action and transformative pathways, Professor Fukuda-Parr discussed how human rights can be instrumental in ensuring the necessary transformation away from a business-as-usual trajectory that has led to unprecedented levels of inequality and tipping points with respect to climate change and biodiversity. Drawing on the work of the CDP, she stressed the need for pro-poor macroeconomic policies, the development of productive sectors that enable people to generate income, and institutional mechanisms for participation, in addition to social protection. Fulfilling the pledge to leave no one behind and the imperatives to push no one behind and to reach the furthest behind first requires more than rhetoric. Human rights are central to that process.

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