Global standards & norms
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- Systematically identifying, predicting and responding to projects potential impacts on human rights
- ( Nomogaia Foundation , 2008)
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This methodology for Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) manual aims to systematically identify, predict and respond to projects' potential impacts on human rights. Experience has shown that...
- Tools and methodologies for monitoring and evaluating agriculture and rural development
- ( B. Hall (ed);N. Okidegbe;T. Marchant;et al / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
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While donors and development practitioners still lack a common framework of results indicators to measure the effectiveness of development assistance, this sourcebook sets out a menu of core i...
- Is adaptive capacity important to climate change?
- ( I. Christoplos (ed);S. Anderson (ed);M. Arnold (ed) / Commission on Climate Change and Development , 2009)
- Climate change is already affecting poor people and communities around the globe. This paper presents a conceptual framework that turns the mainstream adaptation discourse upside down with autonomous ...
- Enhancing understanding of the relationship between corporations and human rights
- ( Global Compact Network, United Nations , 2008)
- In 2008, the UN Human Rights Council produced a conceptual and policy framework to guide the business and human rights agenda. The framework rests on differentiated but complementary responsibilities,...
- Upholding the right to science as part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- ( J. Wyndham (ed) / SciDev.Net – the Science and Development Network , 2008)
- As the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is marked, this article calls for all scientists to uphold the right to science. It is argues that this right, whic...
- Creating a rapid response mechanism to deal with climate insecurity
- ( R. Vos;R. Kozul-Wright;O. Paddison / UN , 2008)
- Under an intensifying era of climate change, this policy briefaddresses the need for an integrated response to deal with the challenge of climate related insecurity. ...
- Understanding the key climate change issues under negotiation
- ( C. Carpenter / United Nations Development Programme , 2008)
- This paper documents the summaries of briefing papers on key issues under the four main “building blocks” of the current international climate negotiations – mitigation, adaptation, ...
Rights based approaches and climate change
- ( Oxfam , 2008)
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This briefing proposes that human rights principles provide a guideline for dealing with climate change. The document emphasises that the human rights community must beco...
Empowering forest stakeholders: recommendations for a new global forest partnership
- ( International Institute for Environment and Development , 2008)
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This report presents the findings of an independent consultation carried out by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) on the World Bank’s preliminary idea of a ne...
- Reporting violence against children to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
- ( S. Jacomy / Consortium for Street Children , 2008)
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These guidelines are designed to help non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to include comprehensive information on the incidence of violence in their reports to the Committee. They were devel...
