We operate from the starting point that preventing and reducing disaster risk is also the means to protect and promote human rights.

“The Sendai Framework clearly puts ‘people’ in the centre and calls for the promotion and protection of all human rights

“A key theme of the agreement is accountability, emphasizing the importance of disaster risk reduction being integrated into public policy, further refining how basic human rights can be protected alongside the prevention of disaster.”

She was encouraged to see an increasing emphasis within the Human Rights Treaty Bodies on the Sendai Framework and disaster risk reduction including in the guidelines to State Parties of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

“But challenges remain: human rights and disaster risk reduction have not yet been sufficiently linked programmatically. We must do more to ensure disaster risk reduction initiatives are implemented through a rights-based approach,” Ms. Mizutori said.

Date:

26 Feb 2019

Sources:

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)

Themes:

Advocacy & Media

Countries:

Brazil

Regions:

Africa, Americas