EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Disasters have wide-ranging impacts on human rights, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and inequalities while also creating new ones. At the same time, violations of human rights contribute to vulnerability and exposure, increasing disaster risk.
There is increasing attention being paid to how States protect and promote human rights as part of disaster response and post-disaster recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts.
This publication focuses on applying the human rights framework prior to a disaster arising and seeks to deepen an understanding of what it means to take a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to disaster risk reduction and provide guidance to States and other stakeholders on how to do so.
That human rights can – and must – support the prevention and reduction of disaster risk is grounded in States’ international human rights obligations and reflected in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai Framework). One of the guiding principles of the Sendai Framework is to protect people and their assets while promoting and protecting all human rights, including the right to…
