We strongly advocate rights for IPLCs, women, youth … But will other targets simply undermine them?
Unless we address serious problems with targets 14, 15, 16 and 18, we will continue to lose human rights on the ground.
These targets, which address government (target 14), business (target 15) and society (target 16) separately, completely fail to address the core issues that link them. The role of governments must be to develop regulatory frameworks to control the activities of businesses all the way along their supply chains. This is vital to protect the people and biodiversity where goods are extracted and manufactured from exploitation, human rights abuses and environmental degradation, as well as consumers from deceptive information.
Implementing Target 18 on subsidies and incentives is urgent, to address the biodiversity destruction, human rights violations and injustice they cause, as well as identifying any new and/or undetected harmful subsidies.
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