Human rights

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Rwanda joint governance assessment report: monitoring progress: ( A. Duncan (ed);G. Williams (ed);T. Sheehy (ed) / Local government of Rwanda , 2008); This report is an assessment of governance in Rwanda and is aimed at establishing a common understanding of governance progress, problems and priorities on the basis of agreed indicators and benchm...
How to monitor progress towards decent work?: ( ILO International Labour Organization / International Labour Organization , 2008); This paper focuses on the measurement of decent work and, more specifically, how progress towards decent work can be monitored at the country level.

It starts with a discussion on the im...
the indivisibility and universality of human rights: ( P. P. Popovic (ed);O. V. Vieira (ed) / Sur - International Journal on Human Rights , 2008); This issue of the Sur Journal on International Human Rights presents a number of papers which critically revisit two issues initially raised 60 years ago by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ...
Can human rights be assessed quantitatively?: ( A. Hines / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2005); One of the most persistent obstacles facing human rights measurement is the widespread reluctance to use quantitative data to assess civil and political rights. There is a common belief in the human r...
How to evaluate the implementation of human rights?: ( M. Kirby / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , 1998); This paper focuses on various issues related to developing indicators of the implementation of human rights. ...
A review of the state of global human rights: ( Amnesty International , 2009); The Amnesty International Report 2009 is a record of the state of human rights during 2008, in 157 countries and territories around the world. It depicts the systemic discrimination and insecurity tha...
Does development improve human rights situation?: ( World Bank , 2004); This paper addresses some of the challenges related to the measurement and empirical analysis in the fields of human rights, governance and development....
Integrating human rights based approaches in the programme process: ( G. Berman / UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education , 2008); This report is based on lessons learned from documenting experiences and programmes that incorporated the human rights-based approach (HRBA) in several Asia-Pacific countries. The report is intended f...
Assessing the impact of human rights projects: ( B.A. Andreassen;Hans-Otto Sano / Norwegian Centre for Human Rights , 2004); Over the last decade, support for international human rights and democratisation has grown steadily as an area of international development co-operation, and since the mid-1980s, there has been a shif...
How to use indicators for assessing human rights standards in development programmes?: ( UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2006); This document is a practical guide on indicators for human rights based approaches to development programmes, for UNDP country offices....