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Global justice, international relations and the Sustainable Development Goals' quest for poverty eradication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2020

Alberto D. Cimadamore
Alberto D. Cimadamore*
Affiliation:
CROP, Bergen5020, Norway
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*Email: alberto.cimadamore@crop.uib.no
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Abstract

The paper examines the notion of global justice in the changing context of International Relations and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved by world leaders in 2015. Structural differentiation of states and the international system is presented as a way to explain limitations and possibilities in the quest of poverty eradication and global justice. The paper ends by assessing how international poverty law and human rights approaches can team up in the search for accountability, defined as the key to transit towards a more just world. It concludes that the political and legal responsibilities emerging from the universal policy agenda of the SDGs (to be implemented according to rights and obligations of states under international law) could pave the way towards global (social) justice.

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povertyglobal justiceSustainable Development Goalsinequalityhuman rightsinternational relationsaccountability

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Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy , Volume 32 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Social Policy and the Transformative Potential of the SDGs , June 2016 , pp. 131 - 148
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Copyright © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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