In a letter submitted to the UN Secretary General, RightingFinance addressed a number of requests in regards to financing aspects of the upcoming Synthesis Report that the Secretary General’s office is preparing as input for the intergovernmental negotiations on the Post-2015 Development Agenda Summit.

The letter makes reference to the human rights audit that RightingFinance carried out on the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Finance report, assessing it from the perspective of international human rights principles including those of maximum available resources, non-retrogression, minimum core, non-discrimination and equality, participation, transparency and accountability, access to justice and access to remedies.

“A reading of our assessment will show that while we find several of the Committee’s recommendations useful steps towards the realization of human rights, we also find others fail to utilize and build on grounds available among existing human rights standards,” the letter said.

In the letter, RightingFinance requested that the UN Secretary General’s Synthesis Report, in line with his earlier statements, builds on international human rights law for its recommendations on financing means of implementation of the post-2015 development agenda, and made several concrete recommendations towards that end.

Read the full letter here: http://www.rightingfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Read-full-letter.pdf