The post-2015 development agenda and South–South and triangular cooperation – How the partnership model should be?

families at the community level, all too often lose out to psychiatric and bio-medical interventions. A commitment to human rights lies at the heart of the UN’s normative framework. Any hierarchy within human rights prioritising one right or one group of rights over another, or one population over others, has inevitable detrimental outcomes and leads to systemic violations of human rights. Selective approaches to human rights and fundamental freedoms undermine the crucial principle of meaningful participation and empowerment, which is of particular importance for the effective involvement of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in decisions that affect them. If the new SDGs are to stand any chance of being effectively realised, the commitment to human rights and the right to health must be a priority of first order. For this, the root causes of the global public health crisis must be tackled, and real improvements in the health of billions of people across all regions of the world are necessary.