Presentation on human rights and sustainable development at a Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland policy seminar

The seminar, organized by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland on 17 March 2016, explored the linkages between sustainable development and human rights and served as platform for discussing the current challenges to the World Bank adopting an explicit human rights based approach.

During the seminar, the panelists addressed a Finnish policy and civil society audience to review the existing tools and mechanisms at the World Bank’s disposal and contributed to the debate by giving recommendations on how the Bank could strengthen its approach to human rights. 

View and download Finn Tarp's presentation slides

Professor Finn Tarp’s presentation, titled ‘Human Rights and Sustainable Development: Reflections in the Light of the 2030 Agenda’, discussed the importance of data for the monitoring framework of the Agenda 2030. On the topic of the World Bank, Tarp reviewed the Bank’s human rights based approach to development and shared recommendations from UNU-WIDER research, especially from the findings published in the position paper Governance & Fragility Position Paper, which was prepared within the ReCom - Research and Communication on Foreign Aid project.