Human rights
- Human rights in Latin America
- C. Toledo / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Human rights have played a key role in ending dictatorships in Latin America, inspiring democracy, fostering social justice and generating a more empowered and active citizenship. This guide highlights the key policies and ...
- Legal Assistance Centre (LAC)
- The LAC's main objective is to protect the human rights of all Namibians. It has a head office in Windhoek, along with two regional offices. LAC's work is supervised by the Legal Assistance Trust, whose trustees include legal practitioners, other professionals and community leaders. It works in five broad areas: litigation information and advice ed...
- Intercultural Health Policies in Latin America
- S. Ruiz Cervantes / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Historically, indigenous peoples’ access to health services in Latin America has been limited due to a variety of social, economic and cultural factors. The misunderstanding of indigenous peoples’ world view and their defi...
- Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies (CHRIPS)
- CHRIPS is an international institution, principally working in Africa, and committed to the generation and dissemination of policy-relevant knowledge and to the development of innovative public policy solutions that also promote human rights and social justice.
- Diverse Voices 2012
- C. Jackson / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012
- Can social media break taboos? Does the law protect the weak and poor? Experience reported by the BBC about Weibo – China’s Twitter – suggests that it’s “ability to connect people has been used...
- Forum Syd
- Forum Syd is a democracy and rights organisation. It challenges the abuse of power, oppression and discrimination as a means of reducing poverty in the world, and does so in association with Swedish member organisations and thousands of volunteers the world over.
- Indian Law Resource Center
- A non-profit law and advocacy organisation established and directed by American Indians.
- New Tactics in Human Rights
- New Tactics in Human Rights is project of the Center for Victims of Torture. CVT's mission is to heal the wounds of torture, and to stop its practice worldwide. New Tactics in Human Rights project connects the broad human rights community around the world to share experiences, resources and tactical ideas to advance their own human rights advocacy efforts.
- Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America
- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2012
- This paper presents the problems of poverty in the U.S. from the perspective of the notion of “extreme poverty,” regarded as a violation of human rights. By choosing the United States as the case study, this paper seeks to...
- Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation
- AF is a civil society organisation working for women’s empowerment and citizens’ rights with the collaboration of citizens’ groups and organisations to provide information, build capacity and undertake advocacy for women’s issues and for good governance in Pakistan.
- Human rights in Latin America
- C. Toledo / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Human rights have played a key role in ending dictatorships in Latin America, inspiring democracy, fostering social justice and generating a more empowered and active citizenship. This guide highlights the key policies and ...
- Intercultural Health Policies in Latin America
- S. Ruiz Cervantes / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
- Historically, indigenous peoples’ access to health services in Latin America has been limited due to a variety of social, economic and cultural factors. The misunderstanding of indigenous peoples’ world view and their defi...
- Diverse Voices 2012
- C. Jackson / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012
- Can social media break taboos? Does the law protect the weak and poor? Experience reported by the BBC about Weibo – China’s Twitter – suggests that it’s “ability to connect people has been used...
- Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: A Case Study of the United States of America
- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2012
- This paper presents the problems of poverty in the U.S. from the perspective of the notion of “extreme poverty,” regarded as a violation of human rights. By choosing the United States as the case study, this paper seeks to...
- Report of the law commission on the review of the constitution [of Malawi]
- Z. Kadzamira / Sustainable Development Networking Programme, Malawi, 2007
- The Malawi Constitution was adopted in 1994 to operate provisionally for one year and was enacted into definitive force in 1995. The adoption of the Constitution followed the results of a referendum held in 1993 which were in favour o...
- The use of ICT in human rights promotion: A case study of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- E. Nsega / DiploFoundation, 2012
- This paper examines the effect of information and communication technology (ICT) in promoting human rights on the African continent, with particular reference to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Th aim is to ...
- Mapping study for evaluation of Norwegian support for human rights
- V. Bye (ed); R. Bezerra (ed); A.D. Disch (ed) / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
- Almost 10 billion kroner (approximately 1,8 billion US dollars) havebeen given to development cooperation to promote human rights over thepast decade. This Mapping Study is the first deliverable for the evaluation of Norway’s su...
- Norwegian promotion of international human rights
- V. Bye (ed); R. Bezerra (ed); A. Disch (ed) / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2011
- Is there a clear policy behind the Norwegian support to human rights? Is there a specific Norwegian profile in the support to human rights and what results have been achieved? The purpose of this evaluation, as set out in t...
- Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Justice
- L Turquet / UN Women, 2011
- What are the legal frameworks in place to ensure women’s rights and access to justice? How do these laws translate into equality in practice? What interventions are needed to make justice a reality rather than an aspiration for ...
- Contradictory justifications in the US immigration detention system
- S.J. Silverman / The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford, 2010
- This working paper investigates the legislative origins of the US immigration detention system. The document explains who has been subject to immigration detention, where the practice takes place, and what has lead to its rapid enlarg...
- Legal Assistance Centre (LAC)
- The LAC's main objective is to protect the human rights of all Namibians. It has a head office in Windhoek, along with two regional offices. LAC's work is supervised by the Legal Assistance Trust, whose trustees include legal practitioners, other professionals and community leaders. It works in five broad areas: litigation information and advice ed...
- Centre for Human Rights and Policy Studies (CHRIPS)
- CHRIPS is an international institution, principally working in Africa, and committed to the generation and dissemination of policy-relevant knowledge and to the development of innovative public policy solutions that also promote human rights and social justice.
- Forum Syd
- Forum Syd is a democracy and rights organisation. It challenges the abuse of power, oppression and discrimination as a means of reducing poverty in the world, and does so in association with Swedish member organisations and thousands of volunteers the world over.
- Indian Law Resource Center
- A non-profit law and advocacy organisation established and directed by American Indians.
- New Tactics in Human Rights
- New Tactics in Human Rights is project of the Center for Victims of Torture. CVT's mission is to heal the wounds of torture, and to stop its practice worldwide. New Tactics in Human Rights project connects the broad human rights community around the world to share experiences, resources and tactical ideas to advance their own human rights advocacy efforts.
- Aurat Publication and Information Service Foundation
- AF is a civil society organisation working for women’s empowerment and citizens’ rights with the collaboration of citizens’ groups and organisations to provide information, build capacity and undertake advocacy for women’s issues and for good governance in Pakistan.
- Gender Governance Programme, Kenya
- The overall goal of the GGP is to transform leadership and governance at all levels in Kenya in order to deliver on poverty reduction, access to basic needs and equality between and among persons. The Gender and Governance Programme is in its third phase, and it is a multi-stakeholder programme formulated to deepen the gains of the Engendering Political Process Programme (EPPP) in ensur...
- Prison Reform Trust
- The Prison Reform Trust is an independent charity that seeks to: fund research into prison regimes and monitor prison conditions provide advice and information to prisoners and their families about the prison system educate the public about penal issues; and campaign for constructive prison regimes and more use of community penalties...
- AGE: the European Older People’s Platform
- AGE, the European Older People’s Platform, aims to voice and promote the interests of older people in the European Union and to raise awareness of the issues that concern them most. AGE is involved in a range of policy and information activities to put older people’s issues on the EU agenda and to support networking among older people’s groups. Among our guiding princ...
- Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR)
- Promoting human rights in Bahrain
