• Rights-based approaches

Rights-based approaches

‘Consolidating the Profession: The Human Rights Field Officer’ is a research, training and capacity-building project in support of enhanced delivery of services by human rights field operations. The goals of the project are to:

• identify and fill knowledge gaps regarding the role and function of field-based human rights officers
• develop high-quality training and capacity-building tools for human rights fieldwork 
• deliver training and capacity-building programmes for field operations and civil society organisations active in fieldwork 
• facilitate the development of a set of Guiding Principles for Human Rights Field Officers Working in Conflict and Post-conflict Environments