Human rights
Analysing the importance and efficacy of human-rights focused programming in countering conflict and insecurity.
Latest Documents
- "You are all terrorists:” Kenyan police abuse of refugees in Nairobi
- G. Simpson / Human Rights Watch, 2013
- This 68-page report is based on interviews with 101 refugees, asylum seekers, and Kenyans of Somali ethnicity. The report aims to document how police used grenade and other attacks by unknown people in Nairobi’s mainly Somali su...
- Small-scale and informal mining: a big problem for Latin American states
- J. Kuramoto / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
- Latin America has experienced substantial growth and transformation in small-scale mining, meaning it is often no longer small or artisanal, instead it is characterised by high informality and an increasing potential to generate confl...
- Protecting human rights: how can national human rights institutions and civil society work more effectively together?
- J. Kishan; S. Awori; Z. Abugov / Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, 2011
- The realisation of human rights relies on several factors. Most important, however, is the consistent determination of governments to respect human rights and adhere to democratic governance. The rapid expansion and strengthening of n...
- Family and community-based mediation for dispute resolution in Kabul
- R. Gang / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2011
- Traditional dispute resolution in Afghanistan is focused on ensuring local stability through the provision of a careful balance between locally rooted understandings of justice and peace. This paper examines community-based dispute re...
- Are human rights central to conflict transformation?
- M. Parlevliet (ed) / Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, 2009
- This paper looks at the question of whether and to what extent the protection and promotion of human rights is necessary for efforts to address conflict and build peace. It argues that considering human rights and conflict transformat...
- 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: the indivisibility and the univers...
- Integrating human rights in private sector development initiatives
- H. Gibb / North-South Institute, 2008
- There is a growing consensus that development cooperation activities should promote human rights, and that human rights can promote development. A growing number of donor agencies have adopted human rights policies that guide their co...
- Strengthening EU accountability for human rights based approaches
- Amnesty International, 2008
- As the world's largest development donor in monetary terms, EU efforts to alleviate global poverty entail significant financial commitment as well as engagement from a complex array of institutional actors and funding lines. This brie...
- Rights based approaches and climate change
- Oxfam, 2008
- This briefing proposes that human rights principles provide a guideline for dealing with climate change. The document emphasises that the human rights community must become more engaged in national and international climate-policy deb...
- Protecting human rights in conflict and post-conflict environments
- Consolidating the Profession: The Human Rights Field Officer, 2008
- Human rights protection is a fundamental component of development work. For without adequate safeguards - and a basic level of security - there is little hope that constructive, engaged work can take place. This is no more so tha...
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