Suchergebnisse

The negotiation process of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) process was extremely ambitious. It sought to remedy all the shortcomings of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) by ensuring transparency, ownership of the countries of the Global South, strong involvement of civil society groups and stakeholders, and creating a truly transformative set of sustainable development goals. Yet, it did not manage to avoid all the mistakes that were characteristic of the formulation of the MDGS. In addition, it struggled with its very own problems.
The article traces the developments and debates that led to the formulation of Goal 16 on the rule of law. It shows that the success of this ambitious goal largely depends on the refinement of the indicator framework and the review mechanism.

Frauke Lachenmann ; Inhaltstext ; Inhaltsverzeichnis ; Volltext // Exemplar mit der Signatur: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- PVA 2007.1142

The theme of the 2018 ASIL Annual Meeting was "International Law in
Practice," and nowhere does international law become more practical than in
the attempt to rebuild and/or stabilize fragile and post-conflict states
through the means of law. Over the last two decades, the rule of law has
become a veritable panacea for the international community. As the World
Justice Project claimed in 2014, "[w]here the rule of law is weak, medicines
fail to reach health facilities, criminal violence goes unchecked, laws are
applied unequally across societies, and foreign investments are held back."
The rule of law is no longer just a political ideal of checking power, it is
also increasingly "a transnational industry worth multiple billions of
dollars." Multiple state donors, international organizations and
nongovernmental organizations are involved in the business of building the
rule of law.

2015 is the year when the Millennium Development Goals are due to be achieved. Deliberations about a post-2015 agenda have been ongoing for years, with multiple un agencies, ngos, and other stakeholders participating. The Open Working Group (owg) of the General Assembly in 2014, after a complex procedure, presented a proposal on the sdgs that will serve as the basis for Member State negotiations in 2015. The paper seeks to outline the organizational challenges of a process that was intended to be inclusive like none before, but that seems to have proved overwhelming, even detrimental to the objective. It does so by showing how, in the case of the rule of law concept, hopes were raised and then disappointed.