The thing about the SDGs is that a lot of people try to use human rights to say they are more robust than the millennium development goals. They give human rights a boost by saying we need human rights to be less about mere political enfranchisement, and more about rights to food, water etc. They then use this against corps to protect people on the countryside from polluting water and destroying the land and so on. They also use it as a way to get people to claim their rights from the State which will motivate the State to legitimize itself by responding in kind. This book goes into this a bit. Interestingly enough the PRC’s agency on poverty alleviation was involved in the book by giving the author questions and feedback on the book.

You can see how this is probably better than nothing, and more effective than fetishizing GDP, but it is not without criticism. Human rights have a lot of problems that im not willing to fully explain at this time. Suffice it to say that leveraging human rights is a different approach than establishing a political party that represents the countryside and the working people of the city at the expense of capitalist social relations.