{"id":484,"date":"2015-03-05T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/beta\/position-paper-migration-and-the-sustainable-development-goals-2\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T14:28:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:28:07","slug":"position-paper-migration-and-the-sustainable-development-goals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/position-paper-migration-and-the-sustainable-development-goals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Position Paper: Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SDGs mark an important moment for a deeper realization of what human rights are about. Many of the draft goals are aligned with human rights obligations and key elements of the human rights-based approach to development, including attention to root causes, gender equality, non-discrimination, and accountability, among others. However, civil society remains concerned that the OWG proposal looks to the private sector to finance development, affirming a neoliberal model that commodifies people and nature. The SDGs may, in the end, reinforce an economic model by which very often migration becomes a necessity rather than a choice. It is imperative that the SDGs include explicit human rights language to ensure that they live up to their potential of being truly transformative and human rights-centred.<\/p>\n<p>Read the position paper in full \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mfa_positionpaper_sdgs_2015_final.pdf\" rel=\"\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SDGs mark an important moment for a deeper realization of what human rights are about. Many of the draft goals are aligned with human rights obligations and key elements of the human rights-based approach to development, including attention to root causes, gender equality, non-discrimination, and accountability, among others. However, civil society remains concerned that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-position-paper","category-publications"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}