Intervention: Lena Simet, Human Rights Watch, 3rd FfD4 PrepComm

While the Zero Draft mentions human rights as a cross cutting issue, it fails to recognise the critical role of economic, social and cultural rights and the right to development as guideposts to conduct the necessary economic transformation to deliver on development finance goals and a fairer Global Financial Framework. We call on states to explicitly ask for the building of human rights economies, a concept that has long been developed in the Global South and North, and which the UN High Commissioner for Human RIghts has been championing recently.